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MACDONALD: Campus Carry “Feelings”

June 8, 2026June 8, 2026 Steve MacDonald

You are endowed by your Creator with certain unalienable rights. They cannot be specific to you or your tribe. As enumerated, they do not provide for location exceptions. No matter where you live, or what you look like, or who you love, you have rights the government may not infringe. Rights that government exists to … Read more

classroom empty desks original Image by WOKANDAPIX from Pixabay

Night Cap: What’s SO Bad About Social and Emotional Learning (and the SEL Proposed Legislation in NH)?

February 8, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

PART 1: Introduction
This week, there was a hearing before the House Education Committee to prohibit SEL in our public schools. The sponsor proposed an amendment at the hearing to change that to parental consent for children to participate in SEL.

What is a School Based Health Clinic? It’s Not Good

April 27, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

The CDC has inserted itself into education via the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child WSCC model of Community/Healthy Schools. The model is not transparent. They want children to access psychological, social-emotional, medical, sexual, and dental services at school.

URGENT CALL TO ACTION for ALL NH RESIDENTS: Hold Our Government Accountable NOW!

April 20, 2023April 19, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

School administrators across New Hampshire are providing sensitive mental health information to Keene State /Behavior Health Improvement Institute. For more information, go here.

SEL + ESG = Social Credit System In NH Schools: The Danger to Your Child

March 23, 2023March 17, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

Lisa Logan has connected the dots on the Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in our local schools, and how it relates to the Social Credit System. SEL is part of the Multi-Tiered System of Support that has now been implemented in schools across the state.

NH Schools Building Psychological Profiles on Children Without Parental Knowledge or Consent

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

Several years ago a physician from New Hampshire wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal calling attention to the psychological profiles that are now built on children in New Hampshire schools.

Mental Health Data on Children is Leaving Schools Without Parental Knowledge or Consent

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

After a hearing to re-fund the Multi-Tiered System of Support so that schools in New Hampshire can continue assessing, and treating the mental health of students, I sent this email to Lisa White, Director of Instruction for the NH Department of Education.

UPDATE: We know the name of that Keene State Professor Who Shamed Students…

April 24, 2019 Skip

We were alerted to a Professor at Keene State who felt entitled to shame her students for things that they cannot change: race and sex: Earlier this week, Keene State College students were given a handout from a Professor in a class about public health. The handout provided was supposed to cover the topic of, … Read more

NH Federation of College Republicans: Keene State Professor Shames Students For Race and Gender

April 22, 2019April 21, 2019 Op-Ed

For Immediate Release: Apr 18, 2019 Press Contact: Kaylyn Marcotte, comsdirector@nhfcr.gop, 774-946-7336 Keene State Professor Shames Students For Race and Gender KEENE, NH – Earlier this week, Keene State College students were given a handout from a Professor in a class about public health. The handout provided was supposed to cover the topic of, “receiving … Read more

The Keene State College Budget Crisis Evolution

November 26, 2018December 12, 2017 Steve MacDonald

photo c/o Boston.com – The beginning of Keene State’s Enrollment Crisis

Keene State College has an ongoing crisis. Enrollment is down. They are running a deficit.

In an article from this past September (in the KSC Equinox Student/Campus Newspaper) interim College President Dr. Melinda Treadwell said a lot of things, but this caught my eye.

“[We need to be] getting students excited to see what a life at Keene State could be [like] because they are shopping and we have a lot of competition, but I think we have a lot to offer,” Treadwell said. “I think we lost our story a little bit and we need to regain it.”

About that story.