NEA-NH Teacher’s Conference Has Student Mental Health Course

by Steve MacDonald

I hope taxpayers aren’t covering the cost of admission.

The NEA is the largest labor union in the US and, therefore, the largest teachers union, so when the NEA in NH announces a teacher’s conference, you’d be right to wonder what they want teachers to know.

If you happen to be a member of the NEA, you can attend this all-day event for $49.00. Non-members must cough up $149.00. For what?

The person leading the mental health segment is Maxine Mosley. She ran for the NH House, has sued the secretary of state, and, after several decades in the Ed unions, Manchester, and the NEA), is probably exactly what you’d expect after so much stewing.

She does not, despite her self-reported expertise, have a LinkedIn profile. What expertise? According to what’s publicly available: CAGS (Associate School Psychologist), Rivier University; MEd, Northeastern University; BA, Westfield State College; certified School Counselor and Principal by NH DOE (Maxine B. Mosley – profile overview | Citizens Count).

Our sources tell us that none of this qualifies her as a therapist or mental health professional, and according to New Hampshire law, she is not authorized to practice what she does know outside of a school. The NEA’s New Hampshire headquarters is not a school.

The NEA is using someone who it appears is not trained or qualified in mental health disorders or treatment to lead training and discussion on mental health disorders in children to teachers and other “educators” who should not be acting in this capacity under any circumstance.

The NEA’s medical guidance during COVID did more harm than good, and its functional purpose has nothing to do with teaching kids to read or do math at grade level or at all (in some cases), so providing mental health advice seems like a stretch already.

It may well be that in this context, Mosely is more than capable, so while parents and taxpayers might have some concern about her qualification – they’ve expressed as much to me – the bigger question is why the NEA conference features courses of this nature.

The government-monopolized education experiment has failed spectacularly. Allowing schools to delve deeper into the mental health of our children will only screw the kids up more than public schools already have.

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    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, complaint department, Op-ed editor, gatekeeper (most likely to miss typos because he has no editor), and contributor at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, The Republican Volunteer Coalition, has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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