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Voter information What's on my ballot? Where do I vote? How do I register to vote? How do I request a ballot? When do I vote? When are polls open? This past weekend, Education Matters aired an episode on the class size mandate. It is hosted by Keith Poston. For a little over ten excruciating minutes, Mr.

Poston interviewed Sen. Chad Barefoot. And, it must be said that Poston did a fantastic job of interviewing. He asked pointed questions and redirected when needed. And it exposed the intentional quagmire that the NC General Assembly has placed local school districts in with the class-size mandate. People in NC need to watch this interview. And it need to be shared. Highlighted below are specific items he addresses, but when taken as a whole, it maps an argument that goes nowhere very quickly and intentionally shifts blame when it really resides in Raleigh.

Or it is funded, but schools would have to stop doing other services to keep within the law. Sen Barefoot then goes into a long-winded explanation of the need to get data. Literally this month a report on teacher attrition came out for the state and told us how many teachers left positions and for what reasons. It seems a little disingenuous for a legislator who commands so much power to be unknowing of how many teachers teach what subjects when PowerSchool houses all of the data centrally in the first place.

And who runs PowerSchool? Barefoot then gave a history of having two allotments for teachers that separated core-subject teachers from others like for music, arts, and P. He intimated that that was the system the General Assembly wanted to get back to. Poston then rightfully pushed the question about timing and the need to get a solution done quickly as budgets for the next school year are being made for each LEA.

He simply asked if funds will be allocated to the local school districts to cover the costs? So the Senate knew it was a problem. The Senate knew it was unfunded. And now Barefoot says there was already an intent to solve it. What that says is that the class size mandate debacle was actually carefully planned to be a — fiasco.

It is a meticulously drawn out disaster. And it has grown in mass so much that Sen. Barefoot cannot actually explain it without contradicting himself. At about , Barefoot comes back to the idea that reducing class sizes for reading and math classes is a good thing. Whoever said that it was not? And Poston nails him on that strawman argument. We did last year too. It was called HB13, the original bill. The Senate did not even bring it to the floor. Ask Sen. Bill Rabon. Around , Sen.

Poston challenges him again. To think that Sen. Furthermore, this same GOP-controlled legislature removed class-size caps in classes to fit more kids inside of classrooms.

Think about all of the school systems in the past six years that have gone from a 7-period day to a block-schedule that made teachers teach more classes and more students in a given year. And Barefoot says that they were wasting money? Barefoot pivots as if that was a different problem. Three minutes earlier, he was literally talking about underfunding. At , Poston gets to a factor not even broached by Barefoot — classroom space.

Just start listening to how Barefoot starts to blame the local school systems for not making the class size reduction a priority years ago. Remember that textbooks were literally not funded. Remember that new teachers were not allowed to have due-process rights and graduate degree pay bumps. Remember that there is barely any more state-funded professional development.

Remember that the state does not pay for national certification fees any longer. The economy. But Barefoot spends the next few minutes talking about how it was the local school systems fault for not having the space available when they had to foot the bill on textbooks, facilities, professional development, technology, teacher supplements, transportation, etc.

The same local school districts that overall have over 20 percent of students in poverty, deal with funds siphoned off to vouchers and charter schools, have seen Medicaid not expanded that would help students. And Barefoot blames them for something that he already says was not funded by the General Assembly. If there is one thing that needs to be reiterated, it is that come November, people need to vote for candidates who are committed to funding public education.

Because Sen. Barefoot just spent ten minutes telling you in his stream-of-unconscious manner that he is not. And it is amazing how many American politicians seek to gain a political endorsement from the Son of God. They know that seeking the endorsement of God is essential to garnering a very faithful voting segment of the population. Many in our state have done it. See some familiar names?

All in the name of religious freedom. Talk about your separation of church and state. They also are in favor of the class size mandate that may plague public schools for many years to come — the same class size mandate that will force schools to eliminate arts and physical education classes because the lawmakers in Raleigh including the aforementioned will not fully fund the mandate to allow for more class space and teachers to be hired to completely honor what the law asks.

If Jesus came back to earth right now I envision him walking around in a pair of blue jeans and wearing a t-shirt with some sandals. The predominant spiritual path in the United States, Judeo-Christianity, talks much of the need for music, dance, movement, song, and expression.

You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Not fixing the class size mandate in NC is egregious. Without proper nutrition, sleep, exercise, mental health, and emotional support, we open doors to maladies. When the Bible that people like Chad Barefoot and Phil Berger and Tim Moore read talks about a temple, it talks about the insides, not just the outsides.

Interestingly enough, many of the private schools and charter schools that receive public money through Opportunity Grants that many in Raleigh heartily champion have plentiful art programs and physical education opportunities. What our history has shown us time and time again is that we needed music, dance, arts, and physical education to cope and grow as people and we needed them to become better students. To force the removal of these vital areas of learning would be making our students more one-dimensional.

When lawmakers in Raleigh like Chad Barefoot and Phil Berger tell you that the class size mandate is a good thing and has already been funded, then please realize that they are lying.

Interestingly enough, what this unfunded mandate will do to elementary schools will be felt for years if not fixed. There is not enough classroom space in most schools to allow for this. Because it is an unfunded mandate, all other grades will be crowded. Opponents said they got scant notice. Chad Barefoot would expand the number of Wake County commissioners. The Republican said it would give small towns better representation, but a key Democrat says he is undermining election results.

Fact Check: Did pols force voters to pay for coal ash cleanup? At Southeastern, Barefoot had the opportunity to study under all three ethics professors. My favorite class was law, religion and morality with Dr. Heimbach because it touched on the three academic areas that I am most interested in at once.

Southeastern challenged me to think more critically than any other school in my life. Barefoot expressed his gratitude for his time of preparation at SEBTS and to the Southeastern family for their continued support and encouragement.