Charleston Convoy of Hope

10/17/2024

You absolutely must see “Line in the Sand,” a documentary by James O’Keefe undercover journalist and his team on a journey to and through the southern border. At 53 min. and 48 seconds you get to the chapter on unaccompanied children (some as young as 3, documented by Border).

10/15/2024

“A Dose of Reality Re: Michele Morrow

This is an op-ed response letter that addresses many misunderstandings of Michele Morrow's vision for education. Thank you to the author for allowing us to post:
Regarding your recent Op-Ed about Michele Morrow, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, but you made several troubling statements which I would like to address:

"Morrow's only experience with the public school system is her enrollment in it as a child."

Throughout her campaign, Michele has been criss-crossing the state talking to NC public school teachers and administrators in many school districts to understand what are the challenges facing them and what are their greatest needs. Even prior to her campaign for NC Superintendent, she has spent many years at school board meetings and at the NC General Assembly educating herself on the laws and curriculum. There's no reason to believe that as NC Superintendent Michele would stop meeting with teachers and administrators to continue hearing from the classroom perspective.

Public schools in NC are not succeeding by anyone's standards, and it has been that way for decades. At this point, we should not recruit a leader from within this failing system; we need an outsider's perspective with new ideas.

"As a supporter of the Parents' Bill of Rights, Morrow is in favor of rules that remove the autonomy of the school system." & "...by allowing parents to influence what schools can and can not teach, they are undermining the purpose of educational institutions themselves."

These are perhaps your most troubling statements. NC public schools are not autonomous but are a function of the government of we the people. All NC citizens have a vested interest in the success of our schools and a right to direct how they are run. Attitudes like this are fueling the growth of the homeschooling movement.

Who gave the public school system the right to override parental authority over their own children? If a teacher decides to assign my son or daughter to read a description of in**st between two minors (as recently happened in Wake County: https://www.youtube.com/live/VV4e_klmYsg?si=H-578fgBmrXUrC6W&t=6100), shouldn't I as a parent have a right to complain and opt my child out of that assignment?

There is an epidemic of po*******hy being supplied by public school media centers; just look at the many extreme examples at https://www.pavementeducationproject.com/.

I'm talking about books with hundreds of instances of four-letter words, books with pictures of sexual acts, and books with graphic descriptions of violence and sexual acts. Should parents just "trust the experts," or do they have a right and a duty to protect their children's innocence?

"Michele also believes schools should not teach America's history as a 'racist and oppressive nation,' a notion that is incredibly flawed." & "...it seems that she would rather protect the sanctity of the American image and brush the mistakes of the past under the rug."

Michele has said that we need to be teaching kids U.S. and world history, both the bad and the good (https://youtu.be/2eorxZTtK3c?feature=shared&t=2044).
She has never said that we can't teach the history of the transatlantic slave trade or Jim Crow laws. However, these lessons should not be taught in such a way that students with lighter skin feel like they need to apologize for being oppressors and students with darker skin feel like the system is rigged against them.

These feelings of guilt and victimhood are the outcome of "anti-racist" curriculum such as the 1619 Project. Students never hear the stories of the people with light skin and dark skin who fought side-by-side for American independence, or the difficult compromises that the founders had to make regarding the evil institution of slavery , or the abolitionists with light skin and dark skin who fought to end slavery and institute civil rights. Students only learn to hate America, capitalism, and their neighbors, and that is a quick way for a civilization to end its own existence.

"Morrow deems social-emotional learning, an aspect of K-12 education that stresses the building of interpersonal relationship-building skills and emotional self-management, as 'non-academic' and a 'waste [of] money.'"

I urge you to take a look at the way in which SEL has been integrated into NC curriculum: https://www.dpi.nc.gov/districts-schools/districts-schools-support/nc-social-emotional-learning/ncscos-sel-alignment -5-5492

For example, for Kindergarten Math it recommends that teachers give lessons on vocabulary words for feelings, set up small group discussions about emotions, and read literature to identify when they may have had the same feelings as a character. All of this takes away valuable classroom time from actual math. It's no wonder that only 25% of NC 8th grade students are proficient at math and 26% at reading (https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile/overview/NC?cti=PgTab_Findings&chort=1&sub=MAT&sj=NC&fs=SubjectLabel&st=MN&year=2019R3&sg=Gender:%20Male%20vs.%20Female&sgv=Difference&ts=Single%20Year&tss=-2019R3&sfj=NP).

I have heard firsthand from NC public school teachers about how kids are encouraged to go around in a circle and share a time when each of them has experienced a negative emotion. The mandate for SEL is "trauma-informed care," so they have to keep digging until they uncover trauma, often through invasive surveys.

Their mandate is to teach students how to regulate their emotions, so they have to ignore positive emotions and focus on negative ones. Even if this approach didn't violate parental rights and even if it didn't amplify negative feelings and fuel anxiety, the schools simply do not have funding for this when teachers have to pay for their own school supplies. Schools simply don't have time for this when students can't even meet grade-level standards in math and reading.

A major tenet of SEL is "restorative justice," which is based upon the belief that "our Black and Brown students and our [economically disadvantaged] students are more likely to be suspended because of bias in educational systems and bias within educators themselves" (https://www.wral.com/sponsored/university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill-school-of-social-work-behavioral-health-springboard/mental-health-first-aid-and-restorative-justice-a-powerful-partnership-for-healthy-schools/).
Because of this presupposition, SEL "aims to reform systemic inequities, fostering a more equitable educational environment." In other words, when a student misbehaves, it's not the students fault, but rather society's fault. The misbehaving student is merely a victim of circumstance, and the other students in the classroom need to take collective ownership of the misbehavior through democratic dialogue.

Where does all of this "soft on crime" approach lead? Crime in NC schools are at record levels (https://www.carolinajournal.com/crime-suspensions-continue-to-worsen-in-nc-public-schools/), a crisis which Michele Morrow has put at the forefront of her campaign.

"Morrow has publicly stated that students with intellectual and developmental disabilities will 'never be able to compete' with the 'gifted and talented' students." & "This broad generalization by Morrow shows not only that she is largely uneducated on the issue but also that she does not care for a large portion of students within North Carolina."

If you could plot all students on a line from most academically challenged to most intellectually gifted, you would come up with a statistical bell curve. What Michele is describing is that the classroom approach may work for the middle 70% of students, but the top 15% and bottom 15% will benefit from more specialized instruction in addition to classroom time.

This is not about segregating students, but rather ensuring that all students are receiving the proper focus to help them to maximize their capabilities. Michele knows this firsthand because one of her children had a learning disability and the public school system was not providing the necessary level of specialized instruction which led her to opt for homeschooling instead.

Thank you for taking an interest in politics and in NC public schools. We may still disagree on the best candidate for NC Superintendent, but I hope my response has at least provided you with a new perspective on Michele.”

Despite emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, North Carolina public schools continue to experienced increased incidences of crime, violence, and suspensions, according to data from the NC Department of Public Instruction.

10/11/2024

I want to tell you that the following is a very disturbing letter because Michelle Morrow is an absolutely wonderful, kind, smart, and brilliant candidate for the office of North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction and everything that the Democrats are throwing at her are completely false and awful and ugly and vicious. The letter below is from a concerned parent and I’m posting it because people need to see and wake up to what’s going on in the Democrat Party. They cannot argue policy, so they resort to assassinating the character of their opponents. That is all they have. It’s vile and needs to be stopped. If you call yourself a Democrat, you need to talk to your party officials to knock it off because they are the ones who are getting their followers spun up and are creating dangerous situations for other people. It is NOT the Republicans who are the party of hate. See below for evidence and for God’s sake WAKE UP!

“AN OPEN LETTER FROM A CONCERNED PARENT

In case you are unaware, the race for NC State Superintendent of public schools is well underway - and it’s ugly.

The Democrat Candidate Mo Green is a long-time political insider - an attorney and friend of deep-pocketed political organizations.

The Republican candidate is Michele Morrow - a political novice and outsider seeking to fix the education system with fresh ideas and a vision for positive change.

Michele Morrow is a mother of five, a grandmother, a former missionary and foster parent who has worked tirelessly in the service of others; who has traveled the state, over and over the last 3 years working to help improve the education system; who has dedicated herself to trying to fix what has gone so wrong for the children of North Carolina, especially the less fortunate ones who the school system fails again and again.

And what has Mo Green done?

He has worked feverishly to smear her so repeatedly and so vehemently as to incite his followers and surrogates to threaten and malign her. He has encouraged his supporters to go after Michele on-line and in person, attacking her time after time, everywhere she goes, hurling smears and vicious insults.

Shame.

His vile bullying continues on stage standing beside her at what are supposed to be respectful debates and forums meant to discuss the issues and ideas for how to improve our schools. While Morrow does just this, Green repeatedly attacks, knowing full well the effect it has on his supporters who constantly rise to his cues responding day after day with reprehensible slurs like:

“EVERYONE HATES YOU.”
“SHE’S AN INSANE N**I PIG.”
“F*CK YOU, Mickie. You don’t have the intelligence to walk in a straight line.”
“You are a vile and wretched racist.”
“I’d enjoy seeing you with your N**I tail under your dessicated (sic) genitalia as you slither like a snake”
“You piece of gutter sh*t!”

Attorney Green has created such a charged atmosphere of anger and disrespect that credible threats of violence have forced this mother of five to hire security guards.

This is the atmosphere Mo Green, in coordination and cooperation of “news” media, has created around this election for the leadership of our schools.

Shame.

It’s no wonder that Mo Green has left chaos and violence in the wake of his career - first in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, then in Guilford County Schools - 2 systems with some of the highest violence and crime rates in the state.

After leaving the schools in chaos, he went on to fund the riots of 2020 as Executive Director of the Z Smith Reynolds Foundation.

Perhaps most alarming, and most telling, is that Mr. Green has co-opted students in his disturbing personal attacks on Michele. His ‘Students For Mo’ movement has recruited and manipulated an innocent group of young people and twisted them to further his insidious attacks on Ms. Morrow. Their lack of respect for the candidate, and the political process, has been on full vocal display shouting slurs and insults at on-campus forums. Students behaving horribly, fueled by Mo Green.

Shame on you Mr. Green.

One of Mo Green’s favorite questions is: “Is this the kind of person we want running our schools?”

Well, is it?

Is Mo the type of person we want driving the culture in every school in our Great State?

I don't think so.”

09/30/2024

https://thedevilsinthedetails.net/how-the-mainstream-media-helps-destroy-republican-candidates-and-provides-free-political-campaign-support-for-democrats/

How the Mainstream Media Helps Destroy Republican Candidates and Provides Free Political Campaign Support for Democrats. September 28, 2024September 24, 2024 by pmiller683 This one is long but critically important. File this one under: and… ...

09/28/2024

If you need help with v o t i n g you can go to i v o t e r g u i d e dot c o m and punch in your state. Facebook doesn’t like you to have information on that sort of thing so their ai deems it ham with an sp.

09/25/2024

North Carolina Families First is NOT AT ALL FOR FAMILIES. THEY ARE WOKE TO THE CORE AND WANT TO RUIN FAMILIES IN NC and continue to destroy kid’s lives and futures with their time wasting social agenda classes instead of teaching kids how to read, write, do math, and know science and true history.
Michele Morrow, whom NCFF is trying to decimate, is a conservative candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina with amazing and wonderful ideas which will save our schools and improve the educational outcomes for EVERYONE in leaps and bounds. They can’t abide that they won’t be able to control the minds of the children if she wins, because she wants the students to learn how to critically think, not just repeat the social emotional nonsense and revisionist history they’ve been force-fed.

09/25/2024

Biden says ‘for years too little has been done on fentanyl’ EXCERPTS FROM NY POST ARTICLE by Steven Nelson 9-24-2024:
“In the first three years of Biden’s administration, more than 223,000 US residents died of fentanyl and related compounds, according toCenter for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates.
If the 10% decline cited by Biden holds during his final year in office, he will retire on Jan. 20 with about 290,000 Americans dead from fentanyl over four years, of whom roughly 267,000 would have already perished.
Under Trump, who is seeking to retake the White House, more than 159,000 Americans are believed to have died — meaning Biden is on track for an 82.4% increase in deaths over his four-year term as fentanyl is increasingly cut into non-opioid drugs such as co***ne.
Both US-Mexico border officials and Republican leaders say that record-breaking illegal immigration under Biden appears to have facilitated drug-running between legal points of entry, though fentanyl’s compact size also allows it to be smuggled using the international mail and shipping systems and within vehicles at legal border checkpoints.
Despite the significant toll on American society, Biden has never publicly pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping on the matter — with Republican critics openly questioning whether that had anything to do with two lucrative ventures with Chinese state-linked businesses involving first brother James and first son Hunter Biden — in which the future presidentmet with key figures in the enterprises.
“…House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told The Post that Biden was “soft” on China and that “it probably has something to do with business relationships and may very well involve Hunter and James Biden and some of the deals they made over there.”’

09/23/2024

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
AGATHA CHRISTIE

09/15/2024

https://aliyahreturncenter.com/2024/09/12/day-341-swords-of-iron-911-calling-for-global-unity-against-terror/

Chaim starts out by talking about the terrorist attacks against the US on September 11th, 2001 and he compares this to the attacks against Israel on October 7th, 2023. He says that the civilized world must unite in their efforts to push back against this terrorism and this darkness.

09/14/2024

On this page scroll down to the video of a compilation of clips from the public comments at a commissioners meeting on Aug 27. All of you who are calling people racists because Springfield citizens are furious because the city is not capable of handling the insane influx of immigrants the feds have dropped in their laps, just hear them out. If you want to watch the entire 3 hour meeting go on YouTube to Springfield City Commissioners Meeting August 27. The public comments are in a little ways in and the first relevant one starts at 1:10.

'They're in the park grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off.'

09/12/2024

Day 339 Swords of Iron video from Chaim Malespin Director of the Aliyah Return Ctr but also a Sergeant Major in the IDF as part of Yahalom unit to search for hostages and decommission and destroy the vast Hamas tunnel network used in Gaza for terrorism.
Summary of the video from ARC:
“Chaim starts out by talking about how hypocritical it is for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to openly declare that he is eager to sacrifice the lives of his own children on the alter of jihad against Israel but then he sets as a condition for the hostage release deal that his life will be spared.

He also talks about the shofar blasts leading up to the Day of Atonement. In this context he quotes Number 9:10; When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

He also says he wants to push back against some of the big lies that are being thrown around, especially the lie that Israel is committing a “genocide” and that the USA is helping with it.

Chaim mentions that the terrorists of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad hide amidst civilians, guaranteeing that when Israeli soldiers fire on the terrorists, Palestinian civilians will be hit.

Government leaders in several Western countries including Germany have also pushed back against the lie that Israel is committing a “genocide” but some non-Western governments and many NGOs and others have repeated it endlessly.

Chaim goes into an historical explanation of how the term “genocide” came to be and the body of international law that pertains to it. He also explains some of the legal reasons why this term can’t be applied to Israel’s war of self-defense in Gaza.

He gives five responses that can be given to the accusation that Israel is committing “genocide” in the Gaza Strip.

The IDF has done more to avoid civilian casualties than any army in human history. This includes sending warnings to civilians through various channels.
Israel is making sure that food, water and medical supplies are being sent into Gaza every day. This is being done through various means.
Israel has the military capacity to cause much more death and destruction through carpet bombing and other means, but they don’t do it that way.
Israel is still bringing Palestinians into Israel for medical treatment, even while the war continues. Israel is also continuing to give jobs and many other forms of assistance to the Palestinians even after all the wars and terrorism that israelis have suffered from at the hands of Palestinians.
Many of the people who were murdered in the massacres of October 7th were activists working for peace and reconciliation.
Chaim concludes by asking his viewers to be very careful to reject lies and hold fast to the truth, even if it’s very difficult, unpopular or inconvenient.”

Here is the link to the entire collection of Chaim’s daily videos from the beginning of this war. He did not post the most horrific videos that were taken by others on Oct 7 of the many atrocities that occurred.

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09/11/2024

September 11th. Never forget. God bless our first responders and their families. And God bless the families of those who were brutally murdered in the su***de attacks using commercial jets on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and United Flight 93.