SB 227 Lets Good Teachers Teach

Episode summary:

SB 227 lets North Carolina’s good teachers get back to teaching real academics, not DEI indoctrination, and the NCAE is furious about it. This episode breaks down what the bill actually does, why President Trump’s executive order made it necessary, and how the NCAE once again chose politics over kids. We also talk about what real classroom excellence looks like when teachers are both color conscious and colorblind, holding every student to the same high standards.

What you’ll learn / Key moments

• 00:01 – NCAE shows it cares more about far‑left agendas than North Carolina’s kids.
• 00:16 – Republicans override Governor Josh Stein’s veto and make SB 227 law, stripping DEI from NC schools and protecting billions in federal funding tied to President Trump’s order.
• 00:47 – How SB 227 refocuses classrooms on academic excellence, critical thinking, and the free exchange of ideas instead of ideological indoctrination.
  01:57 – Why SB 227 lets good teachers teach the full story of America—its sins and its strengths—while insisting there is more good than bad.
• 02:15 – The balance of being color conscious about each student’s background yet colorblind in enforcing the same high standards for every child.

What you can do

If you’re tired of seeing classrooms turned into political battlegrounds, now is the time to get involved. Share this episode with parents, grandparents, and teachers who still believe schools should teach reading, writing, math, and honest history—not DEI talking points. Call your school board members and state legislators, let them know you support SB 227, and demand that they back good teachers who focus on academics over ideology. And if you’ve had enough of the NCAE speaking for you, show up at meetings, ask hard questions, and help build a new coalition of parents and educators who put North Carolina’s kids first.

The North Carolina Association of Educators demonstrates once again they really do not care about kids – just promoting far left-agendas that protect far-left teachers.

This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Monday, June 29, 2026.

Overriding yet another veto by Democrat Governor Josh Stein, the Republicans in the House and Senate put into law last week Senate Bill 227 that effectively removes the practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion throughout North Carolina schools.  This bill was passed in part to protect the over 3 billion dollars our state receives from the federal government that was put in jeopardy by President Trump’s Executive Order mandating states to get rid of DEI.  But also, to make sure – as the bill states – that all school students receive a meaningful education based on academic excellence, critical thinking, and the free exchange of ideas. 

The NCAE – North Carolina’s pseudo Teacher’s Union made up of pseudo teachers – disagreed.  In a statement made to the Raleigh News and Observer:

“Our public schools are not political battlegrounds,”  [NCAE President] Walker Kelly said in a statement. “They are community institutions built to serve every family. When the legislature moves to erase the values that make schools inclusive, they aren’t protecting students — they’re harming them.”

You are completely out to lunch, Ms. Kelly.  If your values are to teach students that all whites are racist, that America was founded as a country to keep blacks as slaves, that the intersectionality of gender, race and ethnic background mandate we do away with a merit-based education system, or that Ibram Kendi is qualified to teach anything at all about anti-racism – well then not only are we laughing at you we sincerely hope you and your kind of radical far-left educators never be around children of any age ever again. 

The truth of the matter is that SB 227 allows good teachers to teach.  For example, students should be taught both the bad and the good history of our nation – with the final revelation that there is more good about America than bad.  It mandates that teachers be color conscious – understanding that every student is unique and is always in part shaped by cultural and ethnic background.  At the same time teachers need to be color blind – requiring that students meet – or exceed – standards that are the same for every child. 

Good teachers do these things automatically.  Cannot say the same about Ms. Kelly and her cadre at the NCAE.

For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample.  Thanks for listening.