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Donna Green has an excellent overview of how Timberlane School District Superintendent Earl Metzler has an ED problem. That’s Education-budget Disorder. It seems he can’t keep up with his own hyperbolic fiscal histrionics. Declarations of doom that never come to pass. Poor Superintendent Metzler.  First, he threatens to close a school.  Fails at that but not … Read more

On Friday, a disturbing post was made on social media by an actual school board member in the Timberlane Regional School district. Peter Bealo, who is listed as “Board Chair” for Timberlane/Plaistow, posted a photo of the horrific story about abuse in California, then tried to attribute that behavior to all homeschoolers. The post has … Read more

SAU 55 Superintendent Earl Metzler has once again proven that the unelected bureaucracy will always attract people who will do anything to make life difficult for the taxpayers that pay them. For an historical record spend a few hours searching Donna Green’s Blog, but for our purposes today we need to look no further than the decision … Read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Concord, NH Dec. 12, 2016  School board and school budget committee members currently have few independent resources to assist them in improving the governance and budgeting of their districts. The School District Governance Association of New Hampshire (SDGA NH) has been created as a resource devoted entirely to educating and empowering elected school … Read more

A warrant article question survived the deliberative process in the town of Sandown, New Hampshire this past Saturday. To paraphrase, “Do the Sandown voters want to begin the process of getting out from under the tyrannical boot of the Earl of Metzler to form a separate school district?” Or maybe you’d prefer this version.

c/o Donna Green’s blog, Apology To Hampstead Residents To the editor, I want to apologize for alarming you with the remarks I made during the January 14th Budget Committee meeting. Watch the incident here, beginning at 36:01 http://tinyurl.com/jrs82mr My intention was to highlight the fact that the children are more at risk on the playground … Read more

Guest Post by ‘175jfs’ Metzler’s Doctrine of Progressive Educators (DOPE). Deny there’s any problem. Only admit there’s a problem when you get caught lying about it. Limit or exclude any public participation. Threaten with police action or investigations. Avoid RTK requests by forming “special committees.” Stonewall any information or right-to-know requests until there’s legal action.

Prying documents out of school districts in New Hampshire is not like pulling teeth. It’s worse. A recent example of this is the ongoing struggle for more transparency from Manchester city boards and committees. Contracts for the Superintendent, Asst. Super, and Business administrator for the Manchester School District were amended at the end of July but … Read more

The Earl of Metzler waved his Superintendent wand and granted his wife a five year consulting contract worth $250,000.00 dollars in taxpayer money without any bidding or oversight by the board. Donna Green | Timberlane and Sandown Mrs. Metzler’s consulting contract was renewed for 5 years and a total expense of $250,000. This renewal was … Read more

The Intimidation continues from the Earl of Metzler and Timberlane Regional School District. School Board member Donna Green writes (in comments beneath this post): “Timberlane is considering revising their policy on public participation at school board meetings to limit public comment to only those items on the agenda. In my nearly one year of service … Read more

We were talking with Jorge Mesa-Tejada this morning about the problem in the Timberlane/Hampstead School Districts (SAU 55) where it seems the School Board is being co-opted by an evil confluence of their relatively new Superintendent and NH School Board Association in that they are moving in a direction to limit free speech and the … Read more