NC Gov. goes against parents over school choice for their children

"You will obey"

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper [pronouns she, it] declared a parent's right of school choice for their children a "state of emergency" Monday, in a dictatorial attempt to stop a school choice bill from passing the state legislature. 

Since the state legislature is elected by the people of North Carolina, the move by Cooper goes directly against their wishes, meaning that the only state of emergency is having a governor who uses his power to circumvent them. But then again, they also voted for Cooper and are getting what they asked for, good and hard.

Cooper released a video announcement where he declared a state of emergency, arguing that the state of public education is "no less important" than other emergencies, which is total bull crap judging by the way they handled the pandemic.

"It’s time to declare a State of Emergency for public education in North Carolina. There’s no Executive Order like with a hurricane or the pandemic, but it’s no less important," Cooper stated, as if the people's elected representatives were going against their wishes to have some control over their children's education.

He continued to bloviate: "It’s clear that the Republican legislature is aiming to choke the life out of public education. I’m declaring this state of emergency because you need to know what’s happening. If you care about public schools in North Carolina, it’s time to take immediate action and tell them to stop the damage that will set back our schools for a generation."

There's a reason their legislature is Republican, but he thinks he supersedes them.

Cooper's tyrannical announcement drew intense blowback on Twitter by those who refuse to march in lockstep with the woke agenda that is using an overreach of government power. And in this case, it's more than ironic that Cooper's own daughter attends a private school.

The governor has been criticized for opposing private school vouchers while sending his daughter to a private school in Raleigh. He has also attempted to end the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program which provides vouchers to lower and middle-income students because it's no skin off his butt.

Independent Women’s Forum senior policy analyst Kelsey Bolar tweeted:

"What a hypocrite. Public schools aren't good enough for his kids, but they are for yours." 

Purple Strategies partner Rory Cooper posted: 

"If I *were* the Governor of NC, I would've been declaring a state of emergency when the state was in the bottom third of states reopening schools and depriving children of the education they needed. Not once parents got involved and demanded something better for their kids."

But of course, no state of emergency was declared about that.

The Blaze columnist Auron MacIntyre wrote: 

"Executive governing in the permanent state of exception to save democracy."

School choice advocate Corey DeAngelis posted:

"they're losing control over the minds of other people's children. good. cry harder, @RoyCooperNC."

The statement that comports to what I've been saying here is by Americans for Prosperity vice president Casey Mattox:

"A ‘state of emergency’ over a bill passed by the legislature. Very serious."

Last month, GOP lawmakers in North Carolina began to move forward with education reform bills that promote school choice, a move that would level the playing field for minorities in the state. One measure they proposed would provide equal funding to charter school students in line with that of public school students. Cooper, and other critics claimed the bill would serve only to cut funding for public schools.

The measures by NC Republicans followed the announcement by State Rep. Tricia Cotham that she would be leaving the Democratic Party to join the GOP. Her decision, she stated at the time, came from her support for school choice.

"On issues like school choice, like charters, we have to evolve," Cotham said. "One-size-fits-all in education is wrong for children … [Democrats] didn't really want to talk about children. They had talking points from adults and adult organizations."

It appears as if some of the woke have awakened.

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