From April of 2023:
A woman who ran for office on a platform of being pro-public schools.
For someone who was as accomplished an educator as she was, her move to a party that is embracing the dismantling of public education is rather sadistically ironic. At that time she had retweeted a pro-school choice blurb from Corey DeAngelis, well-known for being a Betsy DeVos hired hand to promote privatization before he was fired for past “cinematic” exploits.
Makes one wonder what could switch someone who at one time was called the “darling of the progressives.”
From that same (rather conservative) report, Cotham had been quoted as saying on record and staunchly being on a certain side of issues that make one scratch his head at the switch to another party. (Oh, by the way, she is running again).
She joined a party that was pushing a six-week limit on abortions, pushing legislation that targets LGBTQ people, giving more tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations, and overrode a veto (because she gave the GOP a supermajority) that steered even more money to unproven charters and opaque voucher schemes.
I wonder what the people at East Mecklenburg and Independence High Schools think of what their former administrator is helping to do to their schools.
I know what I think of her.
And now as of December 11, 2024, this:
That doesn’t happen without Cotham’s “switch” – rather betrayal.
