Wake County, School Board, Tea Party, Conservatives

Wake County Returns to Progressive Roots
By Mildred Robertson

We did it. The people of Wake County stood up to the Tea Party Conservatives that infiltrated our school board and tried to turn the clock back 50 years. It was just 1 year ago when the regressive coalition used a stealth campaign to sneak into power during an off election.

Who knew?  It is an unfortunate tradition that folks just don’t get motivated to go to the polls unless there is a presidential election, or other highly contested campaign.

While we were sleeping, folk who fail to understand that Wake County cannot be competitive unless we develop and utilize all our resources took over and trashed our award-winning public school system. They did not seem to understand that kids in Southeast Raleigh are a valuable resource. As a community, we can determine whether that resource becomes an asset or a liability by the way we choose to cultivate it.

 Raleigh is a destination for people from throughout the country seeking a better quality of life.  Our outstanding school system is no small part of that attraction. With the election of Kevin Hill, we now have four years to get the Wake County School Board out of politics and back to the business of nurturing our schools and creating future leaders.

Whether the conservative minority knows it or not, their destiny is intertwined with that of the young men and women in Southeast Raleigh who will now have the opportunity that only a good education can provide.

But this episode may have been a good one for those of us who consider ourselves Progressives. Perhaps we have learned that constant vigilance is essential to freedom.