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Nashua BOE Votes to Approve JROTC Marksmanship Training

This appears to be a big win for Board members Doris Hohensee and Howard Coffman. The Nashua Board of Education has voted unanimously to approve a School Sponsored JROTC Marksmanship program.

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Nashua BOE Meeting Follow-Up As Promised – Corrections and Additions

Due to a miscommunication entirely of my own creation, my earlier post about the Nashua BOE meeting was woefully incomplete. Let’s see if we can remedy that.

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Nashua Board of Education Obsessed with JROTC [Updated]

The Nashua Board of Education met last night. The primary topic of discussion was a previous board decision to allow JROTC air rifle marksmanship practice behind Nashua North High School.

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Does Susan Porter Want What Happened in Parkland to Happen in Nashua, New Hampshire

The Nashua North JROTC “controversy” is spreading. Fox News 25 in Boston is now reporting that School board member Susan Porter said, “I believe that our schools should be gun-free zones and that the only people with weapons on school grounds should be law enforcement personnel,…”

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Rethink JROTC? How About We Rethink the Path to Violence in The Democrat Party?

William Thomas of Auburn (in the Union Leader) is running narrative backup for Plymouth State Prof. Leo Sandy. Sandy compared JROTC students to Hitler Youth. Thomas is painting a similar picture of JROTC as militarization and a path to violence.

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Plymouth State Professor Compares JROTC Students to Hitler Youth

According to Leo Sandy, a professor of Counselor Education and School Psychology at Plymouth State University, High school students in JROTC should “remind us of “Japan and Germany in the late ’30s and early ’40s.”

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Nashua North High School Students vs. JROTC Air Rifle Practice (Round Two)

The student who publicly posted to Facebook their support to overturn the decision to allow JROTC air rifle practice behind Nashua North has removed their post. The movement has been taken over by a new “student” notice on the Nashua Patch.

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Nashua Student Protests Air Rifle Practice at Nashua North – Because “Scary Rifles.”

Last week the Nashua Board of Education approved a request by the Nashua Air Force Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps for air-rifle practice on a field behind Nashua North High School. It didn’t take long for the snowflakes to melt.

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“Guns are scary. I am afraid of guns — they are weapons,”

In a surprising move the Nashua Board of Education “gave the green light for the Nashua Air Force Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to provide an air rifle marksmanship course on a field behind Nashua High School North.”

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