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Banfield: Teaching Violence Begins In Public Schools

July 14, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Everyone keeps looking around wondering how someone can resort to violence in this political culture. Look no further than your local public schools. You may wonder how that can be since schools are focusing on nurturing a child’s social and emotional well being. You’d be lying to yourself. Public schools are breeding activism, and if … Read more

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Executive Council Funds Unethical Mental Health Practices in NH’s Public Schools

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Many people contacted the Executive Council to ask them to turn down a half million dollar grant that would be used to further support the Multi Tiered System of Support for Behavior in our public schools. The MTSS-B is a framework focused on a child’s behavior and mental health. Now that the MTSS-B has been implemented in New Hampshire Schools, we are discovering all kinds of problems.

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Hey! Teachers! Leave Those Kids Alone!

July 2, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The barely Republican-majority New Hampshire legislature managed to pass a pair of bills that unequivocally protect children from abuse. One suggests that it is unhealthy and dangerous to give children (hormone) drugs linked to a rise in the incidence of heart attack and stroke (and that neutering them might not be in their best interest).

The New England Take: 10 years of “Fixing” College Student Mental Health…

May 3, 2024 Op-Ed

Dr. Michelle Mullen, Senior Vice President and Chief Design and Impact Officer of The Jed Foundation, discusses the importance of a wholistic approach to college student mental health and their data from working with 144 colleges and universities.

Did the Windham School District Break the Law on Challenge Day?

April 20, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

This was sent to The New Hampshire Department of Education in an effort to conduct an investigation:

School Funding and Mental Health – Another Example of Government Trying to Grow to Fix A Problem it Created

February 24, 2024 Steve MacDonald

It is a classic tale of progressive woe; years of lousy policy create a problem that those responsible insist needs more funding … for them to fix it. The correct course of action is to fire all of them, take back your money and power, and do something different, but it is a hill they are prepared to die on.

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.

Parental Consent to Medical and Mental Health Care in Schools

January 27, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Dear Ms. Stanley,

I came to the State House to testify at the hearing on SB573 which is an act relative to parental consent for medical care. SB573 would add a new RSA by adding a new Chapter, Parental Consent to Medical and Mental Health Care.

Victims Retraumatized by New State Rules on Release of Criminally Insane

December 21, 2023 John Klar

A recent hearing to consider whether dangerous killer David Peterson should be released from Whiting Forensic Division of Connecticut Valley Hospital (CVH) exposes a serious flaw in a recent change of Connecticut law. As a former Connecticut criminal defense attorney, I support legal protections for those institutionally committed for mental illness (as here). However, new … Read more

Mental Health’s DSM: Science or Scientology?

November 10, 2023 Aaron Warner

The term “mental illness” has gained near-ubiquitous status in our daily lives. Once a rarity among friends and relatives today it seems those without a mental illness are in the minority. Among the flagship mental illnesses are depression, ADD/ADHD, and gender dysphoria.

Gender Cult Propaganda in the Nashua Library Children’s Room

November 9, 2023 Beth Scaer

The picture book “The Meaning of Pride,” targeted at ages 4 to 7, was prominently displayed in June in the Nashua Library’s children’s room. Six months before, Kristin Beck, who is featured in the book as a “transgender woman,” reclaimed his identity as a man.

Lessons from Lewiston Maine

December 3, 2023November 2, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Rick Moran, writing at PJ Media, thinks it is time to do something about mental illness and observes correctly that we’ve gotten away from institutionalizing people who need it. That Lewiston shooter Robert Card’s red flags should have ended with him disarmed and in a facility.

Defender Of The Second Amendment, But…

October 29, 2023 Ray Cardello

Second Amendment proponents, of which I am one, will say that gun rights and ownership are absolute. That there should be no infringement under any circumstances. These people will go to the mattresses (a mafia term for newbies) before they will yield on any changes to the Second Amendment.

The Gender Cult Drives New Hampshire Kids to Despair

October 24, 2023 Beth Scaer

Reading the obituaries in the New Hampshire Union Leader I learned that two trans-identified 14-year-old girls died by suicide in New Hampshire almost exactly six months apart. This is tragic and shocking but not completely unexpected because of the awful toll that social and medical transition takes on gender-confused kids.

Training NH Therapists to Affirm BDSM and Kink

October 9, 2023October 9, 2023 Beth Scaer

The Embodied Directions Wellness Sanctuary yoga studio in Dover, NH, hosted a “Kink Affirming Care Training” in September. Therapists who attended could earn three Continuing Education Units from the National Association of Social Workers – NH Chapter (NASW NH).

A Thoughtful Question That Deserved a Thoughtful Response

September 21, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

The New Hampshire House Education Committee met to discuss a proposed Bill that would require schools to include COMPREHENSIVE Mental Health Education in all schools. The Committee members took time to discuss the merits and the problems with HB505.

WARNING: Public Schools Are Now A Way To Deny Your Child Military And Career Opportunities

September 12, 2023September 12, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

It’s bad enough that public schools have dumbed down the academic component in our public schools to the point where many children will miss out on careers in medicine, engineering, mathematics, and the sciences. Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards are simply not up to par.

Warning to Parents: They Are Trying to Turn Your Public School Into a Mental Health Clinic

September 2, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

We already know that Keene State BHII is under Contract with The New Hampshire Department of Education to develop a report for the Federal Government on the Multi-Tiered System of Support. The MTSS-B is a mental health system now set up in schools across New Hampshire.

URGENT: Mental Health Data on Students Shared w/out Parental Knowledge or Consent: SHOCKING ADMISSIONS!

August 22, 2023August 19, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

URGENT, YOU MUST SEE THIS & SHARE!
The video below is from a Zoom meeting with Keene State BHII, NH DoE employees, and several employees working in NH schools. YOU NEED to listen to this discussion about parental consent and sharing PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE mental health data on students.

Slippery Meet Slope: Woman Asks for Help with Suicidal Ideation, Her ‘Therapist’ Recommends Euthanasia

August 16, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The blind spot on the issue of state-sanctioned assisted suicide just grew exponentially and in the very direction that we have long suggested it would. A 37-year-old woman seeking help for chronic suicidal thoughts was asked if she’d ever considered medically assisted suicide.