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If Andru Volinsky wants to Cut Property Taxes, He Should Become a School Superintendent

March 9, 2026August 17, 2020 Ian Underwood

Andru Volinsky, a candidate for governor of New Hampshire, has a problem understanding how property taxes are paid in the Granite State. He has lived here long enough to know that property taxes are paid at the local level and we have had, for several hundred years, Town Meetings where annual budgets are voted on … Read more

Education today – Why is Academics THIRD in this list of Responsibilities?

August 16, 2020 Skip

This is an ad that was put into the Laconia Daily Sun. Now, I expect for many communities, there are going to be a lot of ads for teachers and such due to staff not wanting to physically to return to the schools (and some not wanting to even do Remote Learning as well.

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August 11, 2020 Ian Underwood

Recently, Reason published an article based on this analogy: ‘If a Walmart doesn’t reopen, families can take their food stamps elsewhere. If a school doesn’t reopen, families should similarly be able to take their education dollars elsewhere.’

Brittany Infographic Teacher Union Cycle

Teachers have forgotten that they’re in the customer service business (and they are making the customers unhappy)

August 8, 2020 Skip

Teachers have forgotten that they’re in the customer service business. In fact, they’ve forgotten they have customers that just happened to have outsourced their responsibility to teach their kids to others. Now, they may well be taking that responsibility back because of bad customer service.

School Union Bosses Are Holding Your Children’s Future Hostage

August 6, 2020 Op-Ed

With fewer than four weeks remaining before school begins, union bosses, school administrative units (SAUs), and school boards seem to be conspiring to hold the school year hostage at the price of our children’s future.

“COVID19” is Taking a Toll on High Schoolers But It’s Not the Virus

August 4, 2020 Steve MacDonald

COVID19 is taking a toll on high schoolers but is not as a result of the actual virus. The CDC’s Dr. Robert Redfield notes that we’ve seen more suicides and more drug overdoses among high schoolers than deaths from the coronavirus. This is significant so what is the message here?

Blogline of the Day – Teachers: what unions are saying won’t match up with their results.

August 2, 2020 Skip

Teachers Refusing To Go Back In The Fall Launch ‘Every Child Left Behind’ Movement. OK, it’s satire (it IS the Babylon Bee, after all). However, like all satire, there are nuggets of truth buried in there. Problem is, the teacher’s unions have decided to bury them on the surface, which is to say, they’re no … Read more

If they aren’t willing to do the time, then we should take away the dime

July 27, 2020July 26, 2020 Skip

The above is the SHOT – and now… CHASER: He’s right – WHY would we want to hand over our kids to be educated by those that DON’T WANT TO BE THERE? These same folks that have not only said that they don’t want to be there educationally but are making demands that have NOTHING … Read more

NH Dems Want a Statewide Mandate on School Reopening? What if Gov. Sununu Could Do this!

July 24, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The State released a well-thought-out guidance document on reopening schools this fall. It provides some primary considerations, relevant information from health authorities (even if I disagree with some of it), and it allows each district to do what works best for them. Democrats hate it. They want a top-down mandate.

New York Times: White Parents are the problem with Education

July 24, 2020 Skip

So, according to the New York Times, white parents are the problem with education. Yep, we are the problem. Parents. White Parents. Or as they put it: “Nice White Parents.”

We’ve come a long way since the Governor Approved Temporary Remote Instruction

July 16, 2020 Op-Ed

Op-Ed: On January 29, 2020, long before the public was aware of COVID-19, the Department of Education provided its first Health Alert to school leaders about a developing health concern.

Blogline of the Day – Judge it to be true

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 Skip

It is easy to find the “man in the street” videos again (or, I’m just better at stumbling over them), especially those made by younger people asking (what should be rather easy questions) of their cohort. Easy being “at least in the ballpark.” Sadly,” easy” seems to really mean “unobtainable.”

NH Recommends in Person K-12 Education Beginning in September

July 14, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The Governor’s Office has released a 49-page report on (to boil it all down) how to get kids back in the classroom beginning in September. In other words, the recommendation is in-person teaching from the beginning of the school year.

“We Hold These Truths: Our Answer To The Mob”

July 8, 2020 Skip

It is our teachers and public education, writ large, that have failed the country; by not teaching Civics and History correctly or adequately. For not turning the barbarians-in-training into knowledgeable and invested Citizens. Instead, they have turned YOUR children against this nation and its history.

THIS SHOULD SCARE THE CRAP out of Parents with Elementary Age Kids in Public Schools

July 7, 2020 Skip

I’ve been putting up “Man in the street” interviews ever since our humble beginnings. And I am never surprised by how illiterate young people are about our history and how the Government (which DEPENDS on citizens knowing its form) works.

“History is not supposed to make you feel good or bad. History is your best defense against ignorance”

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 Skip

Every country has written great pages and dark pages in History. For the United States, slavery and the Civil War that brought an end to it were definitely some of the darkest pages. And we must never forget.

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