GrokInterview: Frank Edelblut, NH Commissioner of Education – Part 3

Is Education meant to educate a Citizen of our State and Republic?  Or is the major thrust of Education simply to prepare someone to enter the workforce in some capacity?  It is a question, as NH is wrestling with Town Meetings and First/Second Deliberative Sessions (the latter if you are in an SB2 style town), … Read more

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GrokInterview: Frank Edelblut, NH Commissioner of Education – Part 2

With Part 2, I broach the subject that comes up here and again at GraniteGrok: “Curriculum and political bias in the classroom”.  Given that in Part 1 we discussed the appeal process, I was curious as to how often this happens here in NH: It does happen – the teacher in Gilford showing her class … Read more

GrokInterview: Frank Edelblut, NH Commissioner of Education – Part 1

This afternoon I sat down with Frank Edelblut, the current NH Commissioner of Education, for an hour long interview.  Having video’d him several times in the past along with his announcement of the NH Dept of Ed’s Learning Everywhere, I thought it was time to sit down and have a conversation about the state of … Read more

Hold The Line – GrokInterview with Susan Olsen

Before all of the testimony on the Democrat Second Amendment infringing bills started, I caught up with the Womens’ Defense League honchos (and Groksters!) Kimberly Morin and Susan Olsen who graciously agreed to spend a few minutes with GraniteGrok.  Here, Susan Olsen shares her thoughts with me what these bills would do to the Live … Read more

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Hold The Line – GrokInterview with Kimberly Morin

Before all of the testimony on the Democrat Second Amendment infringing bills started, I caught up with the Womens’ Defense League honchos (and Groksters!) Kimberly Morin and Susan Olsen who graciously agreed to spend a few minutes with GraniteGrok.  Here, Kimberly Morin shares her thoughts with me AND sends a message to Gov. Chris Sununu … Read more

Gun Control in the Statehouse yesterday

I have not been posting a lot lately and I HAVE to start making the changes to get out of my rut.  However, along with Groksters Kimberly (her reporting here), Tom, and Susan, I was at the Statehouse all day to cover the hearings for Democrat / civilian disarmament bills: 2 in Education that would … Read more

BlogQuestion of the Day: why do they demand…

So much for self-responsibility. And several new caravans have been launched – one purportedly over 10,000.  Is this really how our immigration policy is supposed to work? Why are Democrats so absolutely willing to Cloward-Piven their own country other than to see it crash and burn and thinking “and THEN we will finally be the … Read more

The Media mask is openly dropping – it’s only on whose ox is being gored

With Kavanaugh The Washington Post ran with the uncorroborated crap. And now they are trying to take “the high road?” Trying to appear to be “objective” (with Dem. Justin Fairfax). They had no such “objectivity” for Kavanaugh who was perceived by the Left to be an existential threat to their control of the Judiciary (better … Read more

Tales from the BudComm – Deliberative Session version (Part 1)

This past week was the Deliberative Sessions for both the Town and School Districts. The townfolk review the budgets presented by the Budget Committee and all of the warrants (spending issues submitted either by the Selectmen or the School Board, plus any citizen-sponsored “petition warrants” for kind of purpose. Three petition warrants, one for the … Read more

SDGANH: “Preparing for the Future of Schooling” – Question and Answer time

After both Ian Underwood and NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut were finished with their talks on “Preparing for the Future of Schooling, there was a good half hour time by the audience in asking both questions about their topics and what they are seeing back in their own districts. Part A: Part B:

SDGANH: “Preparing for the Future of Schooling” – Ian Underwood (Part 4 and the entire speech)

Saturday, 1/19/2019, the School District Governance Association of NH (SDGANH) held a seminar called “Preparing for the Future of Schooling. Change is constant – technological, demographic, economic, and political) and School Board (and Budget Committees) must be aware of these changes and localize these national and State level factors. This video is Part 4 of … Read more

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NH GOP Convention – Jay Lucas (Parts 3 & 4)

At last week’s NH GOP Convention, Jay Lucas swung by the GraniteGrok area to yak with us again – again, on his Newport revival project. Given that he had the time, so did we! And yes, at one point given that we were at the NH GOP Convention and he had strolled in, we did … Read more

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SDGANH: “Preparing for the Future of Schooling” – NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut (Part 4 and All)

In this seminar, presented by the School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”), the topic of  what will schools and education look like in the future was discussed  and what school board members need to know NOW about the changes (technological, demographic, economic, and political) that they will be facing and ways to view potential … Read more

SDGANH: “Preparing for the Future of Schooling” – NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut (Part 3)

In this seminar, presented by the School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”), the topic of  what will schools and education look like in the future was discussed  and what school board members need to know NOW about the changes (technological, demographic, economic, and political) that they will be facing and ways to view potential … Read more

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NH GOP Convention – Jay Lucas (Part 2)

At last week’s NH GOP Convention, Jay Lucas swung by the GraniteGrok area to yak with us again – again, on his Newport revival project. Given that he had the time, so did we! And yes, at one point given that we were at the NH GOP Convention and he had strolled in, we did … Read more

NH GOP Convention – Intro Ceremonies

These videos include the actual into ceremonies (e.g., Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, Sidenote: do the Democrats actually honor those two things any more?  After all, they’re the Party that booed God at their Convention and it seems that Democrat infested institutions are rejecting saying the Pledge to do the “higher” calling of the Social Justice … Read more

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