Fact-checking 3 of Michele Morrow’s claims about school safety [Video]

State Education Superintendent candidate Michele Morrow says North Carolina needs to do a better job of keeping public school students safe.

Morrow’s rhetoric on the classroom security — alleging that classrooms have become less safe in recent years — helped her defeat incumbent superintendent Catherine Truitt in the Republican primary. Morrow, a homeschool educator and conservative activist, will now face Democrat Mo Green, a former Guilford County Schools superintendent, in the November election.

At an event in Cary on Wednesday, Morrow suggested North Carolina’s public school classrooms were out of control — referring to a video from a Forsyth County classroom this month showing someone slapping a teacher. Morrow said she wants to “empower teachers to be able to control their classrooms,” saying the report from Forsyth County “was not an isolated incident.”

While some of Morrow’s claims have merit, we found that some of them lacked some context that would’ve given her audience a different impression.

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