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The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
The School District Governance Association of NH (SDGANH) held a seminar this past Saturday on best practices to make your School District more transparent in its procedures. The morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion. It consisted of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the Windham School Board, and … Read more
Second Amendment: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed Infringe: to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another; infringe on a patent And this is the flip side of those that … Read more
In the afternoon of 2/13, the NH House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee held hearings on NH Rep Katherine “I hit old ladies” Rogers’ HB109 (Universal background checks) and HB514 (waiting period for firearm purchases). These are the testimonies of those that took the time off from work to push back on those that … Read more
The death penalty debate has risen once again, and it has Republicans and Conservatives split. I personally am a firm supporter of the death penalty. I am also firmly pro-life. Let’s look at some common reasons people oppose the death penalty and I will provide responses to each argument and explain how I can be … Read more
There’s a new Sheriff in town living at 10 Water Street in Concord and it is clear that Steve Stepanek, the new NH GOP Chair, is not content to sit behind a desk. Defense is not going to be his strong suit – I’ll give him credit for taking the first steps and going on … Read more
Najee Ali, the director of Project Islamic HOPE, is pissed at Hate Hoaxer Jussie Smollett. His performance, according to Ali, was dangerous and an insult to actual victims. And he want’s the man Arrested. “It’s a slap in the face. We have many members of the black community and the LGBTQ community who have been the … Read more
Simply brilliant. President Trump is spanking socialists with their own playbook. He is calling out socialism. Big and bold. If you have studied leftists, as I have since moving to a liberal town in NH run by leftists from CR, NJ, NY, MA, (and some other liberal locations) you can see exactly what President Trump … Read more
…No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. …The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. –Thomas Jefferson In opposition to my earlier post, this one is of the testimonies given this past … Read more
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety -Benjamin Franklin Consider this post, as a good example of how the Left despises your Right to keep and bear arms and what and how they will frame their arguments in order to legislative do to make … Read more
This is the final episode of the interview that I had with Frank Edelblut this past Friday at the NH Department of Education in Concord. The topic? Learning Everywhere – the newest idea on the idea that kids can and will learn from everywhere and in doing a lot of things (pay attention to his … Read more
HB101 and HB564 have to do with gun restrictions in school zones (or as I call these kinds of bills the Second Amendment’s death by a thousand cuts). NH Rep Sharon Nordgren’s testimony was reading a letter from a bunch of Progressives (and remember, Progressives is just a focus group redo of “Socialists”). This gave … Read more
And respond with guns blazing (heh!). This past Wednesday the Education Committee heard testimony from LOTS of people on: HB101 having to do “This bill allows a school district, school administrative unit, or chartered public school to adopt and enforce a policy regulating firearms, firearms components, ammunition, firearms supplies, or knives within its jurisdiction” HB564 … Read more
Why, Skip, is GraniteGrok (especially you) spending so much time on education lately? Is there nothing better to be talking about? The short answer, the plain answer, is no. It IS one of our culture’s “High Ramparts” that the Left decided to target and they were willing to spend decades in influencing, capturing, taking over, … Read more
And yes, I put NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut into a prickly position on this but hey, GraniteGrok is NH’s leading and most influential political blogsite – of COURSE this was going to come up. Andru Volinsky – no interview about education should take place without a mention that Andru Alinsky Volinsky was responsible … Read more
The next “micro-topic” that Frenk Edelblut and I discussed is one of my most favorite parts of the NH Constitution: Article 28-A in combination with the incorrect idea that education in NH is all about local control by one’s School Board. Thus, we talk about unfunded mandates, the “Statification” of local control and the “Federalization” … Read more
Is Education meant to educate a Citizen of our State and Republic? Or is the major thrust of Education simply to prepare someone to enter the workforce in some capacity? It is a question, as NH is wrestling with Town Meetings and First/Second Deliberative Sessions (the latter if you are in an SB2 style town), … Read more
With Part 2, I broach the subject that comes up here and again at GraniteGrok: “Curriculum and political bias in the classroom”. Given that in Part 1 we discussed the appeal process, I was curious as to how often this happens here in NH: It does happen – the teacher in Gilford showing her class … Read more