Category: Public School
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Del Norte Unified School District. Times Up!
By Del Norte Patriot – July 17, 2021 It wasn’t enough they slammed the doors in our faces with a 4:00 voicemail on Sunday, March 14th, 2020 to abruptly inform every Del Norte household that the schools will be shut down indefinitely due to the “Plandemic”. Throughout the Covid debacle, they denied our children access…
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Plans And More Plans To The Tune Of $47,000,000
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – July 8, 2021 It would appear, at least according to Director of Facilities andConstruction, Steve Morgan, that many of Del Norte County’s schools aresuffering from lack of maintenance. In a long list of local schools,Pine Grove, Bess Maxwell, Smith River, Mountain, Redwood and thedistrict’s newest school Mary Peacock…
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The Genius Brigade At Work By Local School District Admin
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 22, 2021 It is amazing at times when the planning for educational spending forthe up coming fall and into the future takes on the appearance ofeverything but educational in nature. We have already been regaled with“new” scheduling for the fall in the form of recycled ninety minuteblocks…
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Let’s See, How Many Times Can The High School Schedule Be Unveiled as “New
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 20, 2021 For many of us, the path to success was, notice the verb is “Was”, agood education. While the current Del Norte High Principal, AlisonEckart, points to the past eighteen months of COVID-19 disaster as thereason for the high school’s dismal performance, perhaps she must beunaware…
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$47,000,000 Are You Kidding?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 9, 2021 As predicted, the Del Norte Unified School District can not refrain fromjoining the parade of government looking to extract even more money fromthe tax payers here locally. In a recent school board meeting, memberson the school board are looking at 2022 to encumber property owners…
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IT’S SETTLED. NO MORE DEL NORTE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR MY FAMILY
Opinion Piece by Linda Sutter – May 14, 2021 I sat quietly as my daughter opened her mail from Del Norte High School. My grandson received all F’s. This is a young man with a remarkable mind. From the age of 13, he and his buddies learned how to take Motorcycles apart, fix them, and…
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TAXATION WITHOUT EDUCATION #5
By Donna Westfall – May 2, 2021 Just about the time you think you understand cancel culture and woke politics, now it’s an effort to try to understand Critical Race Theory. QUICK REVIEW: CANCEL CULTURE: Being ostracized. Most common use is being thown out and banned on social media such as what happened to former…
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The Four Million Dollar Man Speaks
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – April 13, 2021 After yesterday’s romp through just a few of the questions that the“experts” should have to answer about Covid-19 and PCR testing, ournation’s four million dollar man gave his regarding what happens afteryou get vaccinated. According to Dr. Anthony Fauci while interviewed onMSNBC and the current…
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TAXATION WITHOUT EDUCATION # 4: Is it time to get rid of the Teachers Union?
By Donna Westfall – March 30, 2021 The California Teachers Union started in 1863. These days it’s called the California Teachers Association and it’s the largest and most powerful of the teachers unions in the country having 3100,000+ teachers as members. Originally it was to be the advocate for teachers and public education; improving pay,…
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Return students to schools already
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – March 18, 2021 Recently the Del Norte Unified School District’s Superintendent, JeffHarris, offered his report to the District’s School Board withfrustrations over the lack of consistent messaging from the Stateregarding policy towards opening schools and getting back to educatingour youth. Part of his complaint is with policies which…