School administrators are going ahead with SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) surveys on your children. This allows Ed Tech vendors to collect sensitive mental health data on students, in order to build a psychological profile on them.
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Say NO To National Data System
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Stop Giving Schools Your: Gender Identity, Pronouns, Sexual Preference, Race, Identities, and any other Personal Information
No matter where you are politically on the issues of race, gender, sexual identity mental health, etc., there is an enormous amount of data collected on school children right now. Not only are they collecting this sensitive data, but they are also sharing some of this information without the knowledge or consent of parents and guardians.
This School Board Policy Codifies Lying to Parents
by Skip
If your School Board has anything like ours, there is a GREAT little gem in there that allows the School Boards and the Staff to lie to you, the Parents, about your child.
Now That the School District Has Labeled Your Child as an Evil Racist, How Will That Be Used against Him/Her?
In my last article on Critical Race Theory (CRT), I described an agenda put forward by CRT apologists to label your child as a racist and oppressor. It doesn’t stop there.
Right To Know Request – Psychological Evaluations on Students
Dear Dr. Ryan,
After reading through my Right-to-Know request and looking at the information provided, I wanted to finally follow up with an e-mail.
So where are the vaunted Union Leader “Editors” in the Hohensee smear? Or are they in on it?
by Skip
So in all this, Kimberly Houghton who is the Union Leader reporter that wrote about this “Rich Girard smear-a-like political stunt” (the Conservative Manchester School Board member earlier accused of “identifying” a student even as GraniteGrok outed her as having outed herself on Manchester Ink in a public Op-Ed) against Nashua School Board Doris Hohensee. … Read more
Manchester Democrat David Scannell Violates Student Privacy (and the law?) for Political Hit
Manchester Democrat David Scannell has admitted to leaking a letter from a lawyer to the Manchester Board of School Committee about a student. Scannell is claiming the public had a right to know. But legal communications are typically exempt, and he knows that. That’s not the only hole in his story. His claim is riddled with them.
Who Violated the Law in Manchester, Mayor Craig, and Leaked a Confidential Letter to the Press?
Local New Hampshire media recently reported on a letter from a lawyer representing a student to Manchester School Board member Rich Girard. That confidential document was leaked to the press in violation of New Hampshire Right to Know law. The list of people who had access is short enough that Mayor Joyce Craig should be able … Read more
If this is happening in Merrimack schools without Parental Notification, it’s probably happening in your’s.
“New Hampshire schools have redirected the purpose of school, and the primary focus is not on academics.”
Marge Chiafery, Superintendent of Schools;
I appreciate your response that you have provided and appreciate the open dialogue about data collection and social, emotional, and behavioral programming (SEL) in the state of New Hampshire. After reading the regulations for FERPA, it appears that personally identifiable information (PII) collected at the local school district level in the state of New Hampshire (i4See Data Collection system) can be shared without parents knowing about it. Knowing that social, emotional and behavioral programming is being initiated in the state, I believe the sheer magnitude of sharing sensitive, personal, and private data brings the legal issues of privacy, safety, and security to the front of my concerns. I’m sure you would agree.
Although it appears that schools and the New Hampshire Department of Education tell parents and communities that the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. §1232g, is a Federal Privacy law designed to protect the privacy of students’ educational records. Regrettably, regulations were changed without Congressional authority where data mining of our children is permitted for research and development without the knowledge and consent of the parents. I believe it is important that parents are informed about this loophole in the regulations. Protecting children and families should be of utmost importance particularly if children are being used as research subjects. When you stated in your letter, “We have been, and will continue to be methodical in our research and in the application of research into practice….” your comment sheds light on exactly what is happening in our classrooms…methodical research into practice. Professional ethical protocols require informed consent when researching, assessing and treating subjects.