At the last meeting during the “Public Comment” section, I presented the following remarks. I have three issues to bring to your attention:
I. The masking of little children
II. Vaccination of young children
III. Critical race theory parading as diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to U.S. Senator Tom Cotton
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If all the teachers are vaccinated, then the children do not need to be subjected to the long-term risk of inoculation, especially in view of the fact that science can provide us no data concerning the long-term adverse effects of the Covid-19 shot.
Science tells us that children do not transmit the virus and, if infected, suffer only a mild case. Their survival rate for Covid-19 is 99.5%, better than the seasonal flu.
So, Superintendent Tucker, can you tell us what percentage of teachers have been vaccinated? Interestingly enough, Dr. Fauci, the father of Covid-19, told a Senate Committee recently that only 50% of the bureaucrats working for the CDC have been inoculated. Even NH Governor Sununu has said that it is no longer necessary to wear a mask.
Some in our society and our educational institutions have taken leave of their senses and expect parents to accept that interfering with the breathing of young children for eight hours per day has no immediate or long-term cognitive effects on the function of their brain!
With the current war on free speech, I do not know if you are allowed to read or remember the fairy tale known as the “Pied Piper of Hamelin.” He befriended the citizens of the town when he used his flute to entice all the rats in town to follow him down to the river and drown. He was a hero!
Then in the middle of the night, he worked his magic on the children of Hamelin and stole them from their parents. With a little courage, this School Board could use their common sense to save our children by freeing them from their masks and returning them to everyday normal childhood activities.
Finally, if you, the Superintendent, and the School Board, want to be responsible for the suicide of public education, keep using Covid-19 as an excuse to keep children out of school and requiring them to wear masks in school for 8 hours a day.
Your incompetent handling of Covid-19 will be the greatest gift our children will receive because enrollments in private schools and homeschooling are skyrocketing, and our children will avoid the public indoctrination of the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory, and our 8th graders will not have to learn about transgenderism in health class!
That brings me to Critical Race Theory. Our NH Commissioner of Education recently discussed CRT in a letter to the editor. Commissioner Edelblut told NH the following:
“However, for those who promote critical race theory or similar concepts (think diversity, equity and inclusion) are not built on a foundation of common sense but on ideology diametrically opposed to the truths found in our Declaration of Independence that we are all created equal!”
The Commissioner describes the race hatred generated by CRT:
“Of course, it is CRT that would distort our history, limit our speech through its cancel culture and divide us up by immutable characteristics, ignoring the inherent humanity of each individual . . . all of us should continue to believe in the dream Dr. Martin Luther King gave us that one day our children live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
In conclusion keeping in mind the old aphorism that where there is smoke, there is fire, and Ronald Reagan’s warning “trust but verify,” I strongly urge the School Board and the Superintendent to do the following:
I. A complete curriculum review of all grades in the history, civics, and social studies to exterminate CRT from the curriculum.
II. A public presentation at the Colonial Theatre of the teacher training on January 20 entitled: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” If I was on the School Board, I would make that motion!
Charles H. Bradley, III J.D.
Skip: While Exeter and Epping School Districts have garnered much attention of late (and neither for any good reason other than for exposing themselves), there is now a new uprising in the Laconia School District. The local Parents and taxpayers do not trust Superintendent Steve Tucker.
Ask me about him sometimes when he came before me at a Budget sub-Committee. Or the Chair of the School Board when it comes to the issue of whether or not Laconia teachers are teaching, in part or in whole, Critical Race Theory.
