The New Hampshire School Boards Association (NHSBA) recently provided to their member boards a draft of Policy IHBG regarding home education. Granite State Home Educators (GSHE) did an analysis of the NHSBA policy draft and found that their proposed policy has several problematic components.
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A Tipping Point – Teachers Pushing Parents to Homeschool…
As a former local Budget Committee member, I can tell you that the phrase “it’s for the children” is a complete lie – it’s really for the adults in the teachers union.”
Vermont : 75% Rise in Homeschooling Could Hit Public School Budgets Hard
When things don’t go your way, you change the rules. That’s the look I’m getting from Vermont, where parents announcing their intent to homeschool is up 75%. The problem? “State law at present allocates funding to school districts on an “Average Daily Membership (ADM).”
FEAR SHOULD MAKE VOTING IMPERATIVE! NIGHTMARES SOMETIMES DO COME TRUE!
There is much to fear depending on the outcome of our elections in November, both at the federal and state level.
Teachers have forgotten that they’re in the customer service business (and they are making the customers unhappy)
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.
“COVID19” is Taking a Toll on High Schoolers But It’s Not the Virus
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?
Home Schooling interest rises as public schools/teachers unions make it plain they’re ignoring their employers – Parents/Taxpayers
I think the educational-industrial complex is starting to really rile up a lot of parents to the point that they are beginning to really realize who works for whom.
If Your Local NH Public School Reopening Plan Doesn’t Fit Your Needs There Are Alternatives
The families of New Hampshire K‑12 students face a school-reopening predicament. For many, the plans of the local public school will not fit well with their needs and preferences for education and health. Parents need to know that there are multiple alternatives:
Explosive Interest in Home Education
More and more families are choosing to home educate their children! We’re seeing explosive interest in NH; we are consistently adding more than 40 people to our Facebook group each week! Contact Granite State Home Educators if you have questions, or want to join us for an upcoming info session to learn more and have … Read more
NH State Senator Jeanne Dietsch’s Homeschooling Disrespect A Problem for NH Parents
New Hampshire, we have a problem, and it should concern every one of us.
By now, you’ve probably heard Senator Jeanne Dietsch’s (D-Peterborough) unfortunate, derogatory comments about working-class families in New Hampshire.
Democrat Chair Ray Buckley Shares Story About Child Abuse to Smear Homeschoolers – Ignores ‘Public School’ Abuses in His Own Political “Back Yard”
DNC Vice-Chair Ray Buckley wants us to talk about child abuse. You’d think he’d have the sense to stay away from that sort of thing. I guess not. He’s sharing a story about the serial abuse of “kids” from Southern California because NH is so similar.
Quick Thought – No water for Merrimack?
Watching WMUR Daybreak and they reported that the Town of Merrimack is “waterless” due to water main break near the Turkey Hill pumping station. Hmmm, usually when there is NO water, regular schools are dismissed and students are sent home. But EVERY student is now being homeschooled, right? And they are ALSO out of water. How … Read more
Notable Quote (Education) – Jeremy Lott
Reformatted, emphasis mine: What does education look like in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic? At the K-12 level, you’ve got problems. At the collegiate level, you’ve got existential problems. School is out for the year in most locales. More innovative districts are retooling like crazy and trying to do online classes. Parents are looking for cheap … Read more
NH Democrat Susan Almy: “The religious nuts can wait in the hall.”
The Democrat Chair of the New Hampshire House Ways and Means Committee has a low opinion of homeschoolers in her state. Her voting record attests to that. So it doesn’t begin with the planned hearing on a bill to repeal New Hampshire’s education scholarship tax credit (HB632). A hearing for which she choose an inadequate space given the crowd likely to appear.
Attention Homeschoolers! – A few 2019 Bills of Interest
There are a few bills this session that may be of interest to New Hampshire homeschoolers. We are tracking some of them, but want the community to be aware of the others. Thankfully there are no bills directly regarding home education this year. There are at least two bills filed against the tax-credit scholarship program. … Read more
National School Choice Week 2019
Every year we celebrate educational opportunities with National School Choice Week! This cross-country series of independent events that spotlights the array of K-12 learning environments. It will begin January 20th and last through January 26th, 2019. This all began in 2011 and has noted over 58,000 events across the country! It is a fabulous way to … Read more
Home Education Rules Update
Over the summer, the Department of Education reviewed the home education statutes and rules in their preparation of a technical advisory regarding Participating Agencies. We alerted the department to widespread misunderstandings of districts and private schools regarding home education reporting requirements. This problem was exacerbated by sample policies provided by the NH School Board Association to their member boards … Read more
Clarifying Issues With Homeschooler’s “Letters Of Intent”
This summer several efforts brought Participating Agency irregularities to our attention. Problems Granite State Home Educators did a thorough review and update of the private schools serving as Participating Agencies for the homeschool community. Participating Agencies are those schools that homeschooling families send their Letter of Intent to when they begin their home ed program. Families can report … Read more
The Value Proposition of K-12 Education: a failing proposition. New York City shows why
Recent news: “Officials: Most NYC High School Grads Need Remedial Help Before Entering CUNY Community Colleges” (reformatted, emphasis mine)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s an education bombshell.
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system. The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2?s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday. When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.
They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses. They are part of a disturbing statistic.
Officials told CBS 2?s Kramer that nearly 80 percent of those who graduate from city high schools arrived at City University’s community college system without having mastered the skills to do college-level work.
Hmm – not much value there, is there? More like Public Education has a “dereliction of duty problem” on the order of “Do they even know what they are doing”? And those of us that went through primary school through high school before the mid-70s (when the hippie / draft dodging / New Left schooled radical” teachers gave us limitless opportunities to make sport of cashiers that can’t make change in their heads or cannot string three complex sentences to save their lives. Grokster Steve’s recent post on how homeschooling is illegal in Germany and how NH Dems have worked hard to do the same here too (either de jure or de facto): Do NH Democrats Want To Pass A Law Like This One In Germany? It has accumulated a fair number of comments. Hunter Dan – a government teacher that comments here (and to whom, we have been trying to better educate) – left us a comment here in response to a comment by Susan on a monopolistic stranglehold on “public education” by the teachers unions: