Ann Marie Banfield, Author at Granite Grok

What is Sanborn SAU#17 Hiding Now? (Part 1)

July 20, 2024July 19, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Families and employees in SAU17 have been bothered by what’s happening in the schools for many years. It wasn’t that long ago that students were exposing the failures they experienced while attending Sanborn. In this case, students were making the case that administrators were misleading or even lying to parents. Now that I’m asking for … Read more

Does DEI Set Women Up For Failure?

July 18, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

After the Secret Service fiasco, we all witnessed over the weekend, many people are questioning the women in the Secret Service and the ones running the organization. This may be a good time for us all to ask the question, does DEI set women up to fail? DEI has become an important component of the … Read more

Remove Your Children From Social and Emotional (SEL) Learning, Here’s Why

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

As Social and Emotional Learning transitions to Transformative SEL, you will see more radicalized political agendas. Second Step, which is used in many NH schools, shows how some of that will be introduced to your children. CASEL is the gatekeeper for all SEL programs. In one of CASEL’s videos, you can hear how the trainers … Read more

Banfield: Teaching Violence Begins In Public Schools

July 14, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Everyone keeps looking around wondering how someone can resort to violence in this political culture. Look no further than your local public schools. You may wonder how that can be since schools are focusing on nurturing a child’s social and emotional well being. You’d be lying to yourself. Public schools are breeding activism, and if … Read more

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Executive Council Funds Unethical Mental Health Practices in NH’s Public Schools

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Many people contacted the Executive Council to ask them to turn down a half million dollar grant that would be used to further support the Multi Tiered System of Support for Behavior in our public schools. The MTSS-B is a framework focused on a child’s behavior and mental health. Now that the MTSS-B has been implemented in New Hampshire Schools, we are discovering all kinds of problems.

Exec. Council Urged to Reject Funding for Unethical Mental Health Treatment in Our Schools

June 24, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

You are URGED to contact the Executive Councilors and urge them to vote AGAINST #52–funding for MTSS-B.

Governor Burgum Would Be an Enormous Mistake By Trump For Vice President

June 9, 2024June 9, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

As an education researcher, I see Republican Governors fall for education fads pushed by education reformers all the time. Competency-based Education is one of those fads in New Hampshire that does nothing to improve the quality of education in our public schools.

Social Emotional Learning, Restorative Justice, and Rewarding Bad Behavior

June 6, 2024June 6, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Teachers across America are speaking up about the lack of controlled behavior in public schools. What changed? Why are teachers frustrated because behavior problems have become unbearable? Why are they leaving the profession in droves?

Cradle-To-Grave Community Schools Are Spreading …

June 1, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

The Seabrook School Board has been challenging the implementation of the Community School Model for their school. While Community Schools sound good for families, that’s not the case.

NH Public Schools Now Free to Blame and Shame Your Children for Slavery

May 31, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

A few years ago, the New Hampshire legislature passed an anti-discrimination law that restricted teachers from blaming New Hampshire students for slavery. Ok, here is the actual information on what the law did.

The CDC’s Community School Model Under Scrutiny in Seabrook NH

October 29, 2024May 26, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

The Federal Government is going through UNH to distribute money for Community Schools in New Hampshire. That money has been distributed to Manchester, Seabrook, Ringe, and Concord. Parents and taxpayers in those communities better pay close attention to what is happening in your school district.

Community Schools Offering Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy to Children

May 23, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

At the beginning of the legislative session, Senator Dan Innis proposed legislation that would allow school districts to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school based health center for the purpose of providing services to students beyond the scope of school nursing services. The public made sure … Read more

Nickelodeon Porn vs. School Porn

May 17, 2024May 17, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

There is an Investigation Discovery series playing on Netflix called Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. In this series, they are exposing the sexual abuse and harassment towards some of the adults and children on set. From the inappropriate scenes with children on these shows, to actual sexual abuse by the adults involved, it is a disturbing reality that many are just discovering.

Shake Up In The Seabrook Schools, GOOD

May 15, 2024May 15, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

The Seabrook school board has been dealing with frustrated parents for a while now. Many of the complaints seem to center around the district’s poor proficiency scores and unresolved behavior problems.

Rochester’s Ex Superintendent Is In Court Over Spying, And Now Working in Concord

May 10, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

It’s not just your child who has almost no privacy protections in a public school, but it looks like school board members and elected union officials may not have privacy, too.

Another Local School District Asked to Explain Its Anti-Semitism

May 9, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Just imagine where we’d be if Superintendents in New Hampshire were this focused on academic excellence in their public schools!!

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Is It Time For Schools In the Exeter District To Leave the SAU? How About Others?

May 6, 2024May 5, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Parents and taxpayers in SAU16 have been engaged in many battles over the last few years. Much of it started during COVID when they were one of the last districts to reopen. It actually took the Governor to step in and force the reopening.

Radical Community Organizers on College Campuses Who Created Them? Connecting Some of the Dots

May 4, 2024May 4, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

College students, and trained Marxists, do not just wake up one day illiterate and acting like cult members– they have to be trained. The dumbing down of public education certainly helps sway students to support a political movement like Marxism, especially if they are illiterate in history, and economic systems.

NH Democrats Stand Firmly Against Women’s Rights

May 2, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Earlier this week, the Senate Education Committee heard testimony on HB1205, which would require schools to designate athletics by sex and prohibit biological males from participating in female athletics. This bill further creates various causes of action based on violations of its provisions.

Want to See “Action Civics” On Display? Look at Our College Campuses

May 2, 2024May 1, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Many of us have offered repeated warnings about the focus on action civics in our schools versus a focus on academic content knowledge. The violence and anger directed at Jews we are seeing on college campuses, is what students across America have been taught.