Education – Granite Grok

Remove Your Children From Social and Emotional (SEL) Learning, Here’s Why

As Social and Emotional Learning transitions to Transformative SEL, you will see more radicalized political agendas. Second Step, which is used in many NH schools, shows how some of that will be introduced to your children. CASEL is the gatekeeper for all SEL programs. In one of CASEL’s videos, you can hear how the trainers … Read more

Announcing Education Options Inc. and Our First Expo!

by Jody Underwood

We are kicking off a new effort to provide information, support, and connections to families who want to explore education options outside of the traditional public school. Our main population is conservative families who are not happy with public schools but who aren’t aware of all their options. Our non-profit organization and website have just … Read more

Banfield: Teaching Violence Begins In Public Schools

by Ann Marie Banfield

Everyone keeps looking around wondering how someone can resort to violence in this political culture. Look no further than your local public schools. You may wonder how that can be since schools are focusing on nurturing a child’s social and emotional well being. You’d be lying to yourself. Public schools are breeding activism, and if … Read more

Cinde Warmington for NH Governor website

Cinde Warmington is the Definition of a Limousine Liberal!

by Skip

What is a Limousine Liberal? “…They are the same people that demand public education for all of you without choice but then send their sniveling little brats to private education with high tuitions. They are…”

Why Aren’t School Boards Besieged By Parents Over Flat Student Achievement But Rising Costs?

by Skip

If an enterprising teacher looked at their District’s cost per student and then created their own micro-school with even 20 students, they’d be earning far more than at their static union wage ladder.

Citizens MUST Be Reminded of This Truth

by Skip

One of the reasons why our Education System is so pathetic is that our children are not being correctly taught our own American history and philosophy. Then they grow up listening and believing whatever the manipulators behind pop culture are seeding throughout our citizens and young ones.

Also Our Hearts

by Jim Bowman

It’s a foregone conclusion that young minds are being successfully bombarded by any tidbit of crap which will decimate America, but it’s more than our minds; it’s our hearts that these evil-doers have also targeted. For me, the term “heart” generalizes what actually takes in a person’s inner drives, ambitions, attitudes, and motivations—essentially, one’s being. … Read more

If It’s Not ‘Racist’ “Democrats” Would Have to Take Credit for Their Failures And They’d Rather Blame You

by Steve MacDonald

Many imbalances or inequities in our culture result from the same problem. The failure of “the state” to put academic rigor ahead of politics. And who runs “the state”? Bureaucrats, financed by the DC uniparty, which is run by Democrats.

Crime and [No] Punishment

by Ian Underwood

Recently, I was having a conversation in which I had occasion to bring up RSA 193-H:2, which says:

Schools shall ensure that all pupils are performing at the proficient level or above on the statewide assessment as established in RSA 193-C.

It’s Not the Books That Need To Be Removed…

by Ian Underwood

Here’s something that blows my mind.

On the one hand, conservative parents continue to fight over the issue of pornographic books in school libraries.

But on the other hand, they continue to send their children to a political institution controlled by woke progressives.

The Feudal Model of State-funded Education

by Op-Ed

I recently attended Ian Underwood’s presentation titled “Back to Schools” at the Sullivan County GOP Committee meeting, during which he argued coherently and consistently for separating the concerns of what to include in government-funded schools and what to exclude.

The Democrat Solution to High Property Taxes Is… More Higher Taxes!

by Rob Roper

Since attaining supermajority status in Montpelier, the Democrats’ education policy can be explained as “give the government school monopoly (the VTNEA, superintendents association, etc.) whatever they want!”

So Kids, What Did We Learn From Wednesday’s House Session (1/3/24)?

by Judy Aron

We learned that today was the first of two days this week that the House will determine the fate of around 66 bills that were retained from last year. We voted on 37 of those bills today.

Context is… Nothing.

by Burt Janz

The current in-vogue spin-room phrase is “context is everything.” That phrase is used to provide an excuse for every unethical action, from teachers who are caught reading pornography to grade-school children, to politicians who vote to support “gender-affirming” surgery without their parent’s permission or knowledge.

Are the State Courts Trying To Transfer Control of School Districts to Central Command in Concord?

by California Refugee

If you take out and read the United States Constitution.
Or the New Hampshire Constitution.
Or the Declaration of Independence.
Or the federalist papers.
or Tom Paine’s work “common sense.”
You would not find “equity” (as used in DEI).

School Board Closes Elementary School After Parents’ Lawsuit Over Poor Education

by Op-Ed

For the first time in the state’s history, a lawsuit by disgruntled parents may have caused at least a temporary school closure. Windham Elementary School was voted to be temporarily closed on Thursday by their school board. The students will now attend Townsend Elementary School.

Musk U

by Steve MacDonald

Elon has announced his new University. You heard right. The world’s richest man is getting into public education. He’s got a plan to create a STEM-focused primary and secondary school in Austin.

Unfit For Liberty (Part 3, Courts)

by Ian Underwood

For the last several months, many of us have been waiting on pins and needles for a judge to tell us what the state constitution says about education, which is remarkable because it’s not like that constitution is written using particularly difficult language.

Uniform Nonsense

by Ian Underwood

I just finished listening to a webinar by the School Funding Fairness Project. Their whole approach to ‘funding’ (which focuses on fairness in spending while totally ignoring fairness in education) is based on two misconceptions.

Markets, Not Judges, Set Prices, Even for Education

by Op-Ed

There is one and only one way to determine the “true cost” of an adequate education. That is to create a competitive education marketplace. Alas, that is not the approach New Hampshire has taken.