Government Approved Edukashun
Former State Representative Paul Mirski sends the following warning:
RE: Proposed [Public Education] Amendment to CACR 34
There is a reason why there is no language in New Hampshire’s original 1784 constitution concerning the teaching of curriculum in schools. It is because the writers of the constitution and their constituents were the product of a social and religious exodus from England, that had everything to do with escaping from religious and political indoctrination.
Now, the governor and legislature have cooked up proposed language to amend our state constitution that would void the founders view of freedom of thought, religion and association by having the people of New Hampshire instead, impose upon their children the teaching of whatever curriculum the authority of the state deemed worthy of promulgating. As an added insult, the amendment would give the state the authority to extort from parents and their neighbors, the money to pay for such state indoctrination.
The offending amendment language reads as follows:
“The legislature shall have the responsibility to define the content of an adequate education to prepare the student to become a productive and contributing citizen and to determine the total statewide cost of providing that education to all public school students. The legislature shall have the authority and responsibility to raise the funds that total the statewide cost of this education……”
Only a budding despot could love the language the legislature has wrought. No sensible citizen of New Hampshire should let themselves be duped into voting for such misguided social policy nor be duped into giving up rights having to do with conscience, freedom of thought, action and association.
The amendment has been recommended for passage by the House Finance Committee. The Chair of the House Finance Committee, the Hon. Margery Smith, of Durham, was quoted as saying that the proposed language isn’t something that John Adams would have created.
Now there’s a warning if there ever was one.
Encourage your legislators in the House and Senate to defeat the House Finance Committee’s proposed amendment to CACR 34.
Hon. Paul Mirski
Enfield Center, NH 03749
Enfield Center, NH 03749