Now that we know that some New Hampshire schools are sharing mental health data on students with outside organizations like Keene State BHII, parents are beginning to remove their children from SEL. (Social and Emotional Learning) SEL is in Tier 1 of the Multi-Tiered System of Support.
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Parents: How to Opt Your Kids Out of Objectionable Material in School
Current state law allows parents to opt their children out of objectionable material assigned to their children. Maybe the child needs to mature before they are ready for the content, maybe the content is inappropriate and should never be assigned to your children.
New! Improved! Sex-Ed Plus Censorship Plus Mandatory Morality
In the beginning… Colorado passed controversial sex-ed legislation back in 2013. What they did started national discussions about how much we want to expose children to. The Colorado legislation was a mandatory, comprehensive sex education law. It requires students undergo “culturally sensitive” lessons. “Culturally sensitive” means sex-ed lessons incorporating minority perspectives on sex. Minority perspectives … Read more
Refuse State Testing
It’s that time of year again when school districts across the state begin extensive preparations for the annual statewide assessment. Students take multiple practice exams, losing important instructional time, so they score well to make districts and schools look their best. The exam is given to students in grades 3 through 8, and 11 over several … Read more
Sununu Signs Bill To Allow Families to Opt Out of Statewide Assesments
HB1744, an ACT authorizing a parent to exempt his or her child from participating in the statewide assessment program, is now Law in New Hampshire. It does a few things. It allows parents or legal guardians to exclude their children from any statewide assessment. It prohibits local districts form punishing parents or students for choosing to opt out. And it excludes the names of student’s and parents from Right to Know requests, protecting them from intimidation tactics by third parties.
The Right to Opt Kids Out Of Assessments
We discuss the parental right to opt their children out of state-wide assessments. The NH Legislature meets on Wednesday to cast override votes on the Governors Vetoes, including a bill to secure those right.
No Curriculum Trigger Warnings For Parents?
Michelle Levell joins us to examine student and parental rights with regard to explicit material in pubic school classrooms, a recent effort to inform parents, and how educarats reacted to the proposed reform.