Woody White was recently appointed to the UNC Board of Governors by the North Carolina Senate. He is also a former New Hanover County commissioner and member of the N.C. Senate. Married to Tammie White and father of two adult children, Woody practices law as a courtroom attorney. You may email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @Woodywhite5.
Opinion
Schools used to teach Orwell’s prophecies. Now they fulfill them.
George Orwell’s name, to me, evokes memories of 10th grade as I sat, uncomfortably, in a small wooden desk on the second floor of my un-airconditioned high school in a rural farming town in eastern North Carolina, about as far away from dystopia as one could imagine. Maria — whose curly blond hair and mischievous,...