UNC System News: Foundations of American Democracy

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It's sad how anti-education some in our government are.
The Pubs just want to get rid of public education. As long as the rich can afford to send their kids to private schools and there is money to be made off it, they are all for it. Oh, and especially if it's a Christian school where they can make sure all the kids know how evil anyone that isn't a straight white Christian is.
 
The Pubs just want to get rid of public education. As long as the rich can afford to send their kids to private schools and there is money to be made off it, they are all for it. Oh, and especially if it's a Christian school where they can make sure all the kids know how evil anyone that isn't a straight white Christian is.
Your grammar just reinforces the pubs need to gain control of public education.
 
I know grammar on a message board is way more important than getting rid of racism, bigotry, and greed.

By the way, please elaborate on how the grammar is incorrect.
nothing major, you're missing a conjunction and preposition or two and ending with "is" can be frowned upon in more formal writing but this is a message board and your points are well-made.
 
Your grammar just reinforces the pubs need to gain control of public education.
I blame my Christian school education for my poor grammar and vocabulary.

I've learned more as an adult than I did in my 12 years of schooling.

Edit to correct swipe errors.
 
nothing major, you're missing a conjunction and preposition or two and ending with "is" can be frowned upon in more formal writing but this is a message board and your points are well-made.
Exactly, it's a message board, who really cares? Other than those who have no other answer.

I will say I appreciate my friends who DM me when I make really bad spelling errors. It helps me to improve.
 
"UNC is temporarily pausing all human resource actions while awaiting further guidance on how the campus will implement a new UNC System-wide personnel cap, according to a statement from UNC Media Relations.
Under this personnel cap, all wages and administrative employee numbers will be capped at their April levels. All new faculty and staff hires must receive chancellor approval or approval from a designated administrator."

 
"UNC is temporarily pausing all human resource actions while awaiting further guidance on how the campus will implement a new UNC System-wide personnel cap, according to a statement from UNC Media Relations.
Under this personnel cap, all wages and administrative employee numbers will be capped at their April levels. All new faculty and staff hires must receive chancellor approval or approval from a designated administrator."

So glad the Legislature is cutting corporate taxes more
 
"UNC is temporarily pausing all human resource actions while awaiting further guidance on how the campus will implement a new UNC System-wide personnel cap, according to a statement from UNC Media Relations.
Under this personnel cap, all wages and administrative employee numbers will be capped at their April levels. All new faculty and staff hires must receive chancellor approval or approval from a designated administrator."

Add “strangle by attrition” to the right-wing methods of controlling Carolina and the UNC System.
 
I propose adding a few documents to the Foundations of American Democracy curriculum.

Abraham Lincoln's 1838 "Lyceum Address."
Frederick Douglass' “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
From Smith's The Wealth of Nations, specifically, Book One, Chapter One, "On The Division of Labor," and Book Four, Chapter Two, "Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries." (Ohio has included this in their own version of The REACH Act)
Excerpts from Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France .

Additionally the so-called Reconstruction Amendments, i.e., The 13th, 14th, and 15th should be included.

Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" Speech (1895)

Theodore Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism” Speech (1910)

FDR's "Four Freedoms Speech." (1941)
 
BTW...recap, the list as it stands at present: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and Bill of Rights, The Federalist Papers, The Emancipation Proclamation, The Gettysburg Address, and "Letter From Birmingham Jail."
 
I really,reallywant the Chancellor spending 90% of his time on Big time Athletics-his fundraising passion
Keep him away from curriculum matters
 
BTW...recap, the list as it stands at present: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and Bill of Rights, The Federalist Papers, The Emancipation Proclamation, The Gettysburg Address, and "Letter From Birmingham Jail."
I have a hunch they just threw in MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail to avoid charges that it is focused otherwise entirely on white men. Not much diversity in those "Foundational" Documents, which is no doubt the point.
 
I have a hunch they just threw in MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail to avoid charges that it is focused otherwise entirely on white men. Not much diversity in those "Foundational" Documents, which is no doubt the point.


My hunch too...I feel pretty confident that no one that pushed this bill from the GOP has ever read it (or they wouldn't want students to). I am thankful for it just the same though.
 
My hunch too...I feel pretty confident that no one that pushed this bill from the GOP has ever read it (or they wouldn't want students to). I am thankful for it just the same though.
I put the over/under of the number of the "Federalist Papers" that the average NC state legislator has read at 1.5
 
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