Justin Parmenter
@justinparmenter
RPCV, public school teacher, 🍎 advocate Education is a human right. Charlotte, North Carolina
Flaming Sword Christian Academy (yes, real name) receives public tax dollars via school vouchers. The school uses corporal punishment as long as it doesn't cause "an injury requiring medical attention beyond simple first aid." Parents who disagree will have their child expelled. 😳
NC requires public school teachers to hold a license. We want them to be well qualified to work with kids. Durham’s Mt. Zion Christian Academy ($881k) requires their teachers to demonstrate their relationship w/the Holy Spirit by speaking in tongues. A license is optional.
Liberty Christian in Durham also raked in $1.7 million. This school reserves the right to expel students who listen to "inappropriate" music at home. Huh?
NC's Millersville Christian Academy got $1.7m in public voucher funds in 2025-26. This school specifically bars admission to LGBTQ+ students, and if a student is even discovered to have an LGBTQ+ family member they'll be expelled.
This private school in Fayetteville, NC pocketed $4.2 million in public tax dollars this past school year. They ban students who practice specific religions like Islam and Buddhism, and they also deny admissions to LGBTQ+ students whom they call "perverted."
Wow this sounds so much like North Carolina, where GOP legislators are pouring more than a half a billion taxpayer dollars a year into private schools that discriminate against children based on things like religious beliefs and sexual orientation. #nced 🧵
Iran is literally invoicing the Trump administration for their share of the market manipulation racketeering haul. 😂🫡
I'm honored to join the North Carolina State Board of Education's newly formed Task Force on Educator Licensure and Advancement. 🍎🙏 #nced
Patriot Front members ride the Washington Metro on July 4, 2026, before marching through the nation’s capital. What an unforgettable artifact of where our nation stands on its 250th birthday. Photo by Cheney Orr / Reuters.
I love it when resistance is hilarious!! Images of Stephen Miller hanging as a bat at the Lincoln Memorial, Ted Cruz as a sex worker, Donald Trump under a bridge, etc. projected in DC by artist collective VJay Bombs.
For the last day of school, my students designed mouse traps. While many dreamed up robotic cats and catapults, an immigrant student won the day with this masterpiece. Behold: La Chancleta. 🩴 "Not lethal but very dangerous... more effective if its Immigrant parents." #nced
Michael Fanone was beaten, tased, and left with a heart attack and brain injury on Jan 6. Now, the Trump administration’s $1.776B “slush fund” could make the very rioters who assaulted him rich. You can’t claim to back the blue while rewarding those who tried to kill them.
Remember when Elon Musk had to miss a great party because he was busy feeding USAID into the wood chipper? Now we are seeing the fruit of his labor.
This plant has been in my classroom window for three years and just started this massive project like two weeks ago. Great job, little buddy!! 🫡 #nced
High-octane gaslighting at $4.59 a gallon. Believe your eyes, not Trump's lies...
😂😬😂😬😂😬😂 Hold up, didn’t Trump indict Fed Chair Jerome Powell for construction cost overruns?
Here are a couple other data points to consider: NC teacher pay is 46th in the nation, down 3 spots from last year. We earn $16.5k less than the national average, and we are the only state in the nation where teacher salaries are decreasing this year. Enough. 🍎💪 #nced
High Point Christian Academy in NC got $3.8m in public voucher funding this year. HPCA believes the purpose of education is "to know God," and students who "are not in harmony with the spirit of the institution" face expulsion. They should not get taxpayer $. #nced
Northwood Temple Academy in Fayetteville got $3.3 million in voucher funds from NC taxpayers this year. Their school philosophy is “The Bible, therefore, will be the first and most important textbook in the NTA curriculum.” They should not get public $ #nced
Freedom Christian Academy in Fayetteville got $3.4+ million for vouchers this year. They only take students whose parents have a "vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ" and who demonstrate "a desire to learn." This institution shouldn't get public tax dollars. #nced
Liberty Christian School in Durham, NC got $1,742,885 in state voucher funding this year. Liberty's primary educational objective is "to bring each student to a saving knowledge and relationship with Jesus Christ." They should not be getting taxpayer funding. #nced
Wow it’s wonderful to see school leadership show support for school staff who have been working without sufficient classroom resources for terrible pay and benefits for far too long. NC is 50th in education funding effort, and we spend almost $6k less per student than the national average. #nced
The world might be on fire right now, but it’s springtime in North Carolina and there is beauty all around us.
Nothing captures the spirit of the holiest Christian holiday of the year like turning Resurrection Day into a countdown for a war crime. Dude pivoted from “He is Risen” to “We’ll bomb civilian infrastructure unless the oil starts flowing” before the ham was even out of the oven.
Hey Senator Berger, congratulations on the early retirement!! Hopefully you were grandfathered in on the state retiree health benefits you took away from us in 2021…😬 #nced
This North Carolinian remembers Tillis voting to confirm Noem to this position despite her clear lack of qualifications and her dog killing history which Tillis all of a sudden finds repugnant… #ncpol
While Operation Epstein Diversion unfolds, the White House still claims air strikes “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities eight months ago… 🤷♂️ www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...