NCNC Podcast: Recent Episodes
Doc Carter
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Doc Carter is possessed by a Halloween Spirit that has him seeing things from a different point of view as he considers what it means that Mark Johnson might not run for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction, but other Republicans are considering doing so. Is this possibility enough to win the position for the Republicans as Democrats in the state seem to push further to the radical left, which might very well be wearing its own mask?
Listen to the most-frightening episode yet! And it might be based on a true story unfolding before our very eyes!
Doc Carter shares news and commentary regarding North Carolina House Republicans' 9/11/19 decision to call a vote on the stalled state budget while many Democratic members were absent, observing the anniversary of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks, having been assured by Republicans no votes would be taken.
Doc Carter explores how the state legislature's mini-muffin approach to budget work has teachers living in 2010 in 2019; gives shout-outs to the NYT's _1619 Project_ and to the recent "Adam Ruins Doing Good" episode of _Adam Ruins Everything_ (which critiques Teach for America); and discusses an instance in which a Wake Forest teacher tried to live in a futurist, progressive America via a lesson plan asking students to complete a "Diversity Inventoy" but found herself in North Carolina -- and possibly in hot water -- instead.
Doc Carter talks about attending NCAE's Instructional Leadership Institute as the only white male there and how knowledge of that element influenced his experience -- but not before he discusses problems with the State Health Plan that could leave thousands scrambling for better coverage or any coverage at all and revisits the "teacher shortage" mythos AGAIN, although this time he is ready with a plan!:
Doc asks you all to contact your legislators and request policy that tallies the number of applications every K12 position in the state gets, as well as other important demographic data, so we can either confirm an actual teacher shortage or call it for what it is: A hiring shortage. (And so we know where to place the blame!)
Details within!