If you are looking for a fix to the crisis we are all seeing in Civics Education, some school administrators have figured it out. Ask your Superintendent making a six-figure salary, why they haven’t figured out this simple solution. It took the students and parents to wake up their administrators, but now you know what you need to do.
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COVID Silver Linings
America has just wrapped up a relatively normal summer with more relaxed COVID restrictions, fewer mask requirements, the ability to gather with family and friends, and consistently lower infection rates than seen in the winter and early spring. Regardless, the return to school has brought renewed focus on what might lie ahead as we continue to march towards Fall.
New Hampshire chooses liberty
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE Republican platform represents the values that my husband and I work hard every day to present to our three boys, both in words and action. I want to instill in my curious, thoughtful sons that fighting for what is right and standing up for those who can’t are the very essence to … Read more
Capping Education Freedom Accounts Would Cap Opportunities for Students
More than 1,000 New Hampshire families have applied for one of the state’s new Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs), showing strong demand for a program that offers many lower-income families their first real alternative to their assigned public school. Sadly, opponents of the program have cited this strong interest as a reason to prevent the program from growing.
How Would the Taliban Treat Amaarah DeCuir If She Were Abandoned in Afghanistan by the Biden Administration?
Amaarah DeCuir is a lecturer who recently did a presentation for the Virginia Department of Education in which teachers are encouraged to erase Muslim involvement in 9/11.
Quick Thought: And This Is the Result of Promulgating Government’s Near-Monopoly on Education
I’ve posted about this before in that kids that have graduated “well” from high school have found out the hard way that their Government Schools did a poor job in training them up to face college material.
School Boards, Try This One Weird Trick to Slow the Spread of COVID
I sent this email to the Nashua Board of Education after their latest meeting where they made only minor concessions to the recently passed district-wide mask mandate for students.
Education Freedom Becomes Reality for More Families
Lower-income students who struggle in their assigned public school at last have another option, no matter where in New Hampshire they live. Applications for an Education Freedom Account have opened.
ICYMI – Utah Teachers 4-Minute Rant about Politics and “Stupid Parents”
If you missed it, a Chemistry teacher in Utah went on an extended rant recorded by students in the class. Here’s a primer: “Most of y’alls parents are dumber than you. I’m going to say that out loud.”
Can Public Education Regain the Lost Confidence of Parents and Taxpayers?
Democrat Governor Kate Brown recently signed Oregon’s Senate Bill 744, ending graduation proficiency requirements. Sad but true. The Beaver State will allow students to graduate from high school that can’t read, write, or do the math – in line with national “dumbing down” movements.
CRT is Winning … as Planned.
From a quick perusal of recent posts. Michael Breen on August 19th: “… except for Dawn Johnson, the [Laconia School] Board was hostile to any resistance to its decisions and confusion regarding CRT. …
Parents: Take Back Control of Your Children’s Education
If you are a parent who is not satisfied with the education that is being provided for your children, please come and learn how you can take control of their education.
Tyranny, COVID, Genocides, EndlessWar, Conspiracy, Alinsky, Kabul!
So I am reading a fellow Jewish blogger’s blog and his post has several items worth highlighting specifically. And a few other things I’ve seen scattered around. But first, those few selections:
Belknap County Republican Committee – Parts 2 & 3 of NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut’s address
Continuing on from NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut’s address to the Belknap County Republicans, here is the rest of the address: Part 2: Part 3: And next is the 5 part Q&A session – it is clear that the Republicans in Belknap County want to know how to pushback on the … Read more
BCRC – Parts 3, 4, & 5 of the Q&A session after NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut’s address
And the last in the series of GraniteGrok covering NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut’s address to the Belknap County Republican Committee this past Wednesday: Q&A Part 3: Q&A Part 4: Q&A Part 5:
BCRC – Parts 1 & 2 of the Q&A session after NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut’s address
Folks know that GraniteGrok is at the tip of the spear against what is going on in the various School Districts around the State. Both Ann Marie and I are putting up a lot of posts on a number of the SAUs that have decided that they don’t have to Follow The Law and also … Read more
Belknap County Republican Committee – Intro Ceremonies and Remarks, and NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut
The Belknap County Republicans had their monthly last night at the Gilford Community Church in Gilford, NH. The keynote speaker, as the title above notes, was Frank Edelblut who is the current NH Commissioner of Education. IMHO, probably the best person to be in that seat during this last year and a half. Very knowledgeable, … Read more
George Carlin was Right! – SAU 16, The School Funding Study, and Partisan Politics Edition
In 2019, the NH General Court approved the creation and implementation of a School Funding Study and gave it a budget of $500,000. I won’t get into the particulars of the final report at this time, but I will say that the $500 grand would have been better spent on one of the underfunded communities discussed in the final report.
So Bruce, What’s That about Govt Schools Being the Best? This Is “Best”?
I know that Oregon is part of the Leftist Left Coast but this is just bonkers. One of the biggest costs to taxpayers is the “public school” system that has no end of “schoolies” that believe absolutely NOTHING is wrong with govt schools that your money can’t fix. This, however, is Stupidity on a Stick that NO amount of money can fix this:
