She presented herself with a huge smile, her words crisp and her gaze confident as she looked across the high school auditorium of prospective voters. In bedazzled shoes, a bright red dress, and a blonde blowout, she stood assured like a pageant queen.
Friends and family donning T-shirts with the words “Make Education Great Again” sat in the front rows. They were eager to hear Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee for North Carolina superintendent of public instruction, make the case that her lack of experience in public education is just what North Carolina students need.
“I think one of my greatest qualifications is I have no experience in a failing system,” she said in the October 14 debate at a high school in Pinehurst.
Her Democratic opponent, Mo Green, is a former district superintendent. Morrow boasts her 10 years of teaching high school science, Spanish, and civics. But she has never taught in a…