Editor’s Note: Acclaimed Author and UNC-Wilmington Professor Dr. Clyde Edgerton has established a following of people under the banner of “North Carolina Concerned Parents and Citizens 2020.” Dr. Edgerton and others have joined together to fight racial discrimination and sexual abuse in New Hanover County that has caused the removal of the NHC School superintendent and Assistant Superintendent, the School Attorney as well as sending several NHCS employees to prison. Dr. Edgerton has also taken to monitoring my publications and others across North Carolina in his noble efforts to improve education in North Carolina and make North Carolina Schools a place where children can learn in a safe and caring environment.
Upon reading my last article titled “New School Board Majority stumbles at First Step,” regarding the New Cleveland County School Board Majority trying to find a new attorney, Dr. Edgerton immediately sent the Cleveland County School Board the following Message. Please note that Dr. Edgerton reduced my 2,000 plus word investigative article and recommendation down to three sentences. The last sentence being profound, but not nearly as eloquently described in my article. Dr. Edgertom told the CCS School Board, “You (the School Board) and only you, of course, represent the PEOPLE!!” And students, children, parents and taxpayers are people too!!! Corruption is not “people” and deserves to be eliminated!!! Immediately!!!
The following is the message Dr. Clyde Edgerton sent to the entire Cleveland County School Board. It is so profound in so many ways. It is a thought, a concept, that has escaped the consolidated Cleveland County School Board and “their” superintendents since the CCS formation near the turn of this century. The old school boards as well as the old and present school Superintendents have always worked together to protect the interests of the “establishment” version of Public Schools. Even and especially when those interests (and cover-ups) would conflict with the best interests of the people. And were often most hurtful to the safety of the children when child sexual abusers, when caught, were allowed to resign and often go to another school where their child sexual abuse would continue.
Please read Dr. Edgerton’s message below. Then go back to my last article noted, reread it and then come back to reread Dr. Edgerton’s message below. Contact the NEW School Board Majority: Robert Queen, Joel Shores, Ron Humphries, Rodney Fitch and Danny Blanton and ask them to do the same. Time is wasting at CCS and the sooner the better in making the changes needed.
Dear Cleveland County School Board,
If the lawyer(s) under question is to serve you, we respectfully submit that it seems reasonable that you hire that lawyer with a clear definition of duties, duties that the school board defines. If the lawyer represents both the board and the school administration simultaneously, somebody needs to know which party the new lawyer will serve when there is a board-administration disagreement. You and only you, of course, represent the people.
Sincerely,
North Carolina Concerned Parents and Citizens 2020
Clyde Edgerton
