New Hampshire Listens is well known for community organizing in New Hampshire. You should read more about that here. NH Listens is offering “community conversations” in the Henniker school district on March 8, 21st, and the 30th.
They say:
Join us in a series of conversations around belonging and inclusion at SAU 24 schools. Facilitators from NH Listens will guide us in discussions about issues facing our school community, with a focus on how we move forward and foster an environment where every person feels seen, welcome, and safe.
Isn’t this something a Superintendent and Principal should already know? Shouldn’t they be able to convey to the community that every person feels “seen, welcome, and safe?” School administrators earning 6-figure salaries now have to rely upon politically- biased community organizers to facilitate meetings in their district.
SAU16 has been immersed in the radical Critical Race Theory agenda in their school district. They even hired an ex-employee from NH Listens as their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Director. Andres Mejia is a plaintiff in a lawsuit so that teachers can return to teaching CRT, and discriminating against some of the children in their schools.
Andres Mejia is also a board member of Black Lives Matter Seacoast. BLM called for the boycott of white-owned businesses during the Christmas Season. Nothing says MERRY CHRISTMAS like a big dose of hatred and discrimination towards white business owners!
Tina Kim Philibotte also worked for NH Listens in the past. Philibotte now works as the DEIJ Director in the Manchester Schools. In one of the poorest districts in the state, someone found money to pay for this position. When you see teachers begging for Kleenex in the classroom, pencils, papers, etc., remember what they prioritized.
Do you get the sense that NH Listens, with all of their inclusivity talk, has one leftist viewpoint when it comes to education? Let’s not pretend otherwise. Where is all of the focus on respecting and supporting religious students in the schools? Not everyone comes from the same mindset, but when these organizations exclude a portion of the population, their argument to support diversity flies out the window.
NH Listens also has a secrecy problem. A public meeting should be a public meeting. Maybe that’s the reason schools call upon NH Listens–so public meeting laws can be ignored? That’s a good question because in SAU16, they shut down a member of the public from recording one of their “listening” sessions. What did they have to hide? Why did they prevent discussion after they showed a video of an African woman talk about African pity. A person in the audience from Africa who had a different viewpoint wasn’t allowed to share it. That’s how community organizers work. They present the propaganda, but then do not allow other viewpoints to be shared. How can you possibly manipulate the public if there is a free flow of information? Especially if that information contradicts their propaganda!
So now NH Listens will come to Henniker/SAU25 to community organize. What do they have in store for those who attend? I hope someone will try to record these meetings. I hope that you now understand what these community organizers are all about.
Look past the sales job and propaganda. They talk about equity, but the last equity stunt from a public school called for eliminating honors classes. Instead of helping the black and brown children so they can participate in the honors classes, they simply gave up on them.
