Another blow to parental rights is taking place in The New Hampshire House and Senate. SB341 is a simple and logical proposed Bill. SB341 would require all school employees to respond honestly and completely to written requests by parents regarding information relating to their children.
Ann Marie Banfield
Turning Children Into Illiterate Community Organizers
By its own admission, Nellie Mae’s mission is to turn students into Community organizers. So, its goal isn’t academic excellence but turning students into political mules.
Did the Windham School District Break the Law on Challenge Day?
This was sent to The New Hampshire Department of Education in an effort to conduct an investigation:
If Your NH Public School Is Coercing Students to Identify as the Opposite Sex, Contact Me
HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) — Several central Ohio parents suing Hilliard City Schools allege a student suffering from “severe emotional trauma” was pressured by teachers to adopt “a new name and identity as the opposite sex.”
Teachers’ Unions Care About Teachers, or Do They?
Democrats are calling in the bigwigs to address their partisan positions on public education. There is a ZOOM call scheduled with the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. Much of this will be centered around legislation that expands “school choice” options in New Hampshire.
Still Focused On Political Training for Teachers, Not Academic Training
SAU21 called in the radical leftist political organization Seacoast Outright to train their teachers a couple of years ago. This year, they called in more education consultants focused more on political issues than academics.
DEI to be Rebranded as BRIDGE
It’s common for education reformers to change the names of fads that fail children in public schools. Mastery Learning became Outcome-Based Education (OBE). OBE failed, so they rebranded it into Competency-Based Education or Proficiency-Based Education. None of this helps students academically, so when parents figure it out, they put pressure on schools to abandon it.
Turning Schools into Medical and Mental Health Clinics
Now that a couple of New Hampshire Schools have begun the process of transitioning their district into the CDC’s (Center of Disease Control) Community School Model, parents need to understand what can happen.
Exposing Children To Pornography Is Grooming, So Why Do Schools Get Away With It?
Schools have made pornographic images available to children in our schools in the school library. Sometimes, books are available to children in the school library or on the library App. Many of these books contain pornographic images.
Hudson : Alvirne High School Calls In Black Lives Matter to Meet with Students
Parents in Hudson, NH, were surprised to learn that a political activist from Black Lives Matter would be speaking to students next week. Like many parents, they are reluctant to challenge school administrators for fear that their children would become a target for retaliation.
There is a Way to Improve Public Education: Teach Kids Quality Academic Content
Dear Superintendent Nadeau:
I wanted to share an article from Joanne Jacobs: Core Knowledge Students Learn More–A Lot More. As you can see, “Students taught a structured, knowledge-rich curriculum starting in kindergarten earned higher reading, math, and science scores in third through sixth grade, concludes a new study profiled in “Education Next.”
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Can Deny Your Child a Career in the Military or Law Enforcement
Anytime a student is seen by a school social worker, school psychologist, or clinical mental health counselor, and services are billed to Medicare or Medicaid by the school, a medical diagnosis code is applied. The medical diagnosis code is referred to as a CPT code, which is a procedure code. This refers to the services being performed. An example would be counseling or therapy.
SEL is Draining Tax Dollars from the Merrimack School Budget
Social and Emotional Learning is the latest fad in public education. SEL is considered Tier 1 in a three-tiered mental health framework for students attending public schools. Money for this initiative came through a federal grant several years ago, but as those funds dried up guess who is left to fund these initiatives? The local taxpayers.
CALL TO ACTION: Support Reading Literacy in New Hampshire
Representative Lorie Ball is currently proposing legislation that targets improving reading education for all students in New Hampshire. I urge you to watch her presentation before the House Education Committee on March 5th, 2024. She explains the problems with reading instruction in our public schools, and then how some changes could positively impact reading proficiency for students.
Flushing Your Money Down the Toilet on Professional Development for Teachers
As an education researcher, I’ve been hearing about wasteful spending on teacher professional development for decades. Teachers do value quality professional development, but some will privately tell you that it can be a waste of their time, and taxpayer dollars.
Manchester School District Misleads Parents on Personal Privacy Protections
As I’ve been warning about, there is no real privacy protections anymore in our public schools. Even when they say that privacy protections are in place, don’t believe it. The federal law that is supposed to protect student privacy has exceptions which opens the door for tech vendors to amass all kinds of personal information on students.
NH Civics is at it Again…Now They Want to Promote Group Therapy for Children in Public Schools
With the desperate call to improve Civics Education for students in New Hampshire, you would think one of the most prominent Civics organizations would be at the forefront of making sure our students are literate in this important subject.
NH School Funding Fairness Project = HIGHER State Taxes
Watch for The New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project. As I listened to their presentation, it became apparent to me that this organization is all about raising state taxes with no guarantees it would lower our property taxes.
What a State Take-Over of Private and Religious Schools Will Look Like
I’ve been warning that the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program could eventually lead to a complete government take over of private and religious education in New Hampshire. HB1610 showed us that Democrats were even willing to go a step further and attempt to take over home-school education, too.