And at last night’s School Board meeting, they did – passed the Transgender and gender non-conforming students policy unanimously except for one of the Gilmanton School Board members in dissension. Even after it was pointed out during the Public Comment session #1 that there were STILL internal and diametrically opposing inconsistencies within the policy – … Read more
Well, the Gilford School Board meeting is tonite and it is likely that unless the Board is convinced that there is more to which they can be subjected to legal action, they will vote in Policy JBAB, the transgender and gender non-conforming policy that makes those suffering from gender dysphoria a new protected class. The … Read more
Again, a few more thoughts on the two Daily Sun articles by Roberta Baker on the Gender Dysphoria / Transgender issues now roiling a couple of Lakes Region school districts: Locker rooms, restrooms a sticking point on trans policy Trans policies highlight rift over gender This from a Gilford resident: “There hasn’t been much dialogue,” … Read more
Now Normal people are starting to catch on that ANY Progressive agenda items, specifically the Gilford School Board and Superintendent Kirk Beitler trying to ram Policy JBAB on transgenders, declaring its love for “inclusion” is lying about the inclusive parts: “They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,” said Angelo Farrugia, a … Read more
2+2 = 5 I never did get a response back from Superindent Beitler…But I DID get a response at the next School Board Policy Committee meeting! Government coercing speech and thought over gender dysphoria – the Gilford School Board example. It all started with this: and just like that, it ended with this: C. Names/Pronouns … Read more
I know, I know, – late again to finish this saga of how the Gilford School Board finally figured out they were blowing smoke with their notion that they had the Power to grant a new Right upon a person suffering from gender dysphoria that then placed legal obligations upon others: The first Right to … Read more
“There is nothing in the law that requires schools to follow one practice or another. They have discretion.” Was it on bad advice from the NH School Board association? After all, the NHSBA thought that a mere political subdivision of the State (school board) had authorizing Legislation that gave it the Power (Government has Powers, … Read more
Any time you hear about “social justice” in schools, yank children out of there any way possible – “Social Justice” is nothing more than Leftist indoctrination of your precious ones.
“A generation that doesn’t know history has no past; and no future.”-Robert Heinlein (science fiction writer, author, speaker, and “source for” part of the GraniteGrok name)
This is one of my pet peeve issues. Superindendent Kirk Beitler and the Gilford School Board are in the process of doing this right now with their Policy JBAB on “Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students(implemented directly from the NH School Board Association who had this bucket of “Hating on Normal Parents” out there since 2008). … Read more
I’m late in putting these videos up of the Gilford School Board’s October meeting where Policy JBAB, the 2008 NH School Board Association’s transgender policy was to be “read” and it was clear that the battle lines had already been drawn up and I think THE operational statement comes down to this: “You will be … Read more
“Mr. Murphy, please submit that question in writing to us…..I have already; twice! No answers” Well, this coverage of the Transgender issue that the Gilford School Board has jumped the gun on may take a while but I think it is important not only on students and staff affected by this but IS THE SCHOOL … Read more
I think it was Tip O’Neal who coined the phrase: “All politics is local.” That’s as true today as when O’Neal uttered it. Right here in Gilford, our school board is struggling with a problem best described as a catch 22. I’m speaking of the transgender phenomena.
Just because you’ve thrown 28 pages at someone and called them “responsive” doesn’t mean you have answered an RSA 91-A demand. Which is what GSD Superintendent Kirk Beitler did.
The entire policy is here. Yes, this is going to be a thing for a while – yet another attempt of mandating another left leaning policy in which we Normals are supposed to tolerate, accept, affirm, and believe in what is a mental disorder (last I knew, sexual dysphoria is still in the book as … Read more
So, one of the complaints that was issued by a parent at the last School Board Meeting was that this new transgender policy was just SPRUNG on parents; noticed during the last week of August when many could have been out of town and little time to get the word out.
So a thought – if grown men (and yes, some senior boys are, indeed, grown men of legal age) can go into the girls bathroom, how does the public law on indecent exposure now work? The Gilford School Board is now saying that it no longer applies to its bathrooms and locker rooms. What are … Read more
I have been absent for a couple of days here at the ‘Grok as I have been spending time with my “other ‘Grok”. That would be GilfordGrok that covered only issues that affected my home town. With Doug going into political retirement, it was all I could do to keep up with this site, so GilfordGrok, over the last couple of year, turned into my abandoned red-headed step-child version of a blog-site (pretty much, all I did was post up video of the meetings of the Budget Committee).
Sidenote: every town needs a ‘Grok to do the work that the mainstream press can’t or won’t do. And what we see happening in DC, what happened in Concord, happens everywhere including your town or city. And with the passing of that conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart, we ALL need to be Breitbarts!
Over at Townhall, Judge Napolitano penned a column that caught my eye:
What if you are only allowed to vote because it doesn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you vote, the elites get to have it their way? What if “one person, one vote” is just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance?…
A charade, a farce, and the meaning of democracy is no more. This country was built on the foundation of one man, one vote; that this one vote is precious and it should count for something. Casting that vote is the culmination of a sovereign citizen deciding how they will be governed by the elected and that includes guidance to the elected when voting on specific issues. The problem here is that the “elected” (School Board) decided that the citizens don’t know what is best for them (or their families). To start things off, watch Kurt Webber, Chair of the Gilford School Board, reaction to the call out of “arrogance” as a town resident takes him to task for ignoring the will of the voters:
Yes, Webber is not a happy camper and it is obvious that he is not too keen at being taken to task. Yes, it is edited, but the context of the full video can be watched here at my blog, GilfordGrok (“all things Gilford”), Part 4, starting at about 5:20). The event was a joint meeting of the Selectmen and School Board held to ‘listen to public input’ as each is having to deal with citizens having brought forward Petition Warrants that, if implemented, would place tax caps on their budgets.
Why? What the Judge is talking about has happened in my hamlet – the resident is trying to get Webber to understand why people in town are upset with School Board. The topic – full day kindergarten (the local communities in NH can make that decision for themselves) and why did the School Board decide to unilaterally implement it EVEN AS THE TOWN FOLK HAD PREVIOUSLY VOTED IT DOWN? Sounds like elitists telling the proles “we don’t care about your vote”.
