MAGA schools supt. candidate considered ‘looming threat’

If Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is elected governor next November, there’s a very real possibility that he’ll have a partner in government who shares his MAGA conservative vision of education for North Carolina.

Her name is Michele Morrow, and when the smoke cleared after the March 5th primary last week, Morrow, a Donald Trump supporting/home schooling far-right MAGA activist, shocked North Carolina’s political observers by defeating Republican conservative incumbent Supt. of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt, 52 to 48 percent in the unofficial results from the GOP primary.

Morrow claimed that Truitt was responsible for “our students’ minds being poisoned with politically biased, racially divisive, sexually explicit and academically weak content.”

The win certainly rattled the Republican political and business establishment, which had endorsed the one-term, classroom experienced Truitt.

“Tuesday’s primary election results were a startling warning of the looming threats to North Carolina’s business climate,” the N.C. Chamber of Commerce wrote in a newsletter to its membership after the primaries. “While we celebrate the victories of Chamber-backed candidates, many of the races we were watching turned for candidates that do not share our vision for North Carolina.”

The Chamber warning to its membership added, “…in Republican races, populist candidates enjoyed great success.”

There is little question the Chamber’s dire missive was referring to Morrow as being one of those “…looming threats” and “populist candidates [who] enjoyed great success.”

Just like with Mark Robinson, Ms. Morrow, 52, a married mother of five who lives in Cary, leaves a trail of controversial, and some say bigoted statements against LBGTQ and Muslim citizens, along with other negative indications about how she feels about diversity.

Where Morrow and Robinson both solidly link up is in their stated devout opposition to the truth about American racial history being taught in North Carolina’s public classrooms. Robinson has given lip service about doing something to stop it.

Morrow, if she’s elected the next state superintendent of public instruction, can do something about it.

On her campaign website, Morrow touts herself as “…the only candidate in the race for State Superintendent of public Instruction with a proven record of winning the fight for conservatism,” adding that she is a “Lifelong Christian Conservative.”

Professionally, Morrow has been a rural registered nurse in Texas, and a missionary “in some of the poorest areas in Mexico.”

Currently, Morrow’s website says she works as “a child advocate with an organization dedicated to protecting children from pornography.”

Politically, Morrow’s experience takes on a different tone.

She lost in her 2022 bid for a seat on the Wake County Board of Education.

Rhetorically, Morrow has urged parents not to send their children to public schools, calling them “socialism indoctrination centers” because they push a “woke agenda.” Like Robinson, Morrow says she’s opposed to what she thinks is “Critical Race Theory” being taught in public schools because it “teaches children to hate our country.”

For the record, most experienced educators confirm that Critical Race Theory is only taught in colleges and universities, not secondary public schools, and only documents how systemic racism has tainted historically American institutions.

Morrow has also vowed to fight to remove DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) policies from the state public education system.

She attended the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection to protest the 2020 presidential election results, but says she did not enter the U.S. Capitol Building to riot.
Morrow has promoted various conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccine. On January 24, Morrow issued a press release declaring her endorsement of former Pres. Donald Trump for president in 2024.

Among other “N.C. Christian Faith Leaders,” Morrow is endorsed by former state Rep. Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus), who cosponsored the infamous bathroom bill, advocated that teachers be armed in the classroom, and supported police shooting Black Lives Matter protesters, calling them “vermin” and “thugs.”

Morrow has previously said that she advocates that teachers carry concealed weapons in the classroom.

If Morrow is elected as superintendent of public instruction in November, and Mark Robinson is elected governor, one of his constitutional powers will be to appoint the eleven members of the N.C. Board of Education.

One of Morrow’s constitutional responsibilities as superintendent would be to act as the secretary to the state board. That means she would attend meetings, update members on what’s happening in education across the state, and make recommendations. But she would also responsible for overseeing the state’s public school systems.

Morrow would report to “Governor” Robinson 30 days before the N.C. General Assembly convenes. In short, the two would work very closely together in shaping state educational policy.

Morrow faces Democratic primary winner Maurice “Mo” Green, former superintendent of Guilford County Schools, in November