A group called Educating for Good is hosting a meeting. The topic is HB2 and, more specifically, the “troubling language in 354-A:29 Right to Freedom from Discrimination in Public Workplaces and Education.”
We thought a few of you might be interested in attending. You know, sit in and get the vibe, then report back to us so we can share it with the whole damn world.
You can find details at this link and an opportunity to register. Here is the text from their event page.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
10:00 AM 11:00 AM
As the school year ended, the NH budget was passed an signed by Governor Sununu. While the budget is problematic on many different levels related to public education, most troubling is the language in 354-A:29 Right to Freedom from Discrimination in Public Workplaces and Education.
We’ve heard from many educators that they’d like a space to talk about this. While we have no solid answers about what this means for K-12 teachers next year, we can develop a list of questions and concerns, build community and start to identify how this language might specifically impact our students’ learning journeys, our schools and our communities.
While we know there are lots of organizers in NH and community members who are interested in this topic, we’d like to reserve this virtual meeting space for NH preK-12 public educators.
Please let us know if you have registered to attend so we can connect afterward to get and share details.
One more point. You might be wondering what the hell “Educating for Good” does. THey defend the government monopoly over education with word salad.
Learning with and as a community which has members with varying perspectives and backgrounds is an important strategy in building a just society. Public school and public school teachers are vital in this learning.
In our current unjust system, where so many of our children live in poverty, whose parents are working multiple jobs, not to thrive, but to survive, quality, well-funded public education is important, so that the next generation can work together to make better decisions about how we live. Public school provides opportunities for individual growth and collective sustainability. Opportunities, in many cases, that are lost, because the system has been set up in such a way counter to these possibilities. We need to focus on Educating for Good if we are going to change the way individuals in our communities interact, function and support each other. The public school debate is not just about funding, it’s about what happens when our learners get there.
It sounds nice but let’s be honest. The cure is not a well-funded public school. We’ve dumped trillions into that scheme, and the result is (if we believe this group) an unjust system.
That sounds familiar? Let me see… defunding unjust police departments run by Democrats for decades? Yes, I knew it was familiar.
They f’d it up so badly that the only cure is more of the same!
Sorry.
The solution is to allow parents and guardians to find schools and curriculums that will best help each child succeed. It’s school choice.
This group appears to not only oppose education freedom; they seem committed to protecting the one-size-fits-all government system run by unions and bureaucrats responsible for whatever it is that is unjust about that system.
I didn’t look, but I bet they are heavily left-wing funded and influenced defenders of Critical Race Theory.
And that’s why we need folks to sign up and report back.
Hey, they do it, so should we.
