The prevailing narrative is that the pandemic shutdowns affected student performance in public schools. As seen in our prior two articles, data from the Croydon, NH Village School, and statewide data from the New Hampshire Student Assessment System (NHSAS), the National Assessment of Educational Progress test do not support this narrative.
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Public Education
The Dangers of K-12 Public Education
Parental control, along with teachers, have long been victims of “government force” used as tools to target our children minds with anti-America, bureaucratic curriculums created by the U.S. Department of Education and UNESCO.
Not Possible To Fix The Problem (Blue Hampshire) … If You Don’t Understand (Or Refuse To Accept) The Cause Of The Problem
I recently posted Edelblut’s Decision Not To Run For Governor Reflects The Reality Of Blue Hampshire … which makes the, in my opinion, undeniable and unremarkable observation that New Hampshire has become and will remain for some time a BLUE STATE. Unsurprisingly, one of the commentators suggested that there is an immediate, easy fix … … Read more
Mom Awarded $100K From School District That Tried to Regender her Daughter
A California School District has had to cough up $100,000.00 to settle a lawsuit in which it is alleged to have coached an 11-year-old girl to socially transition to a male gender.
The Granhattan Project: 95% Literacy By 2030
For any enterprise to succeed, it has to take actions that will move it toward its goal. Perhaps more importantly, it has to say no to actions that won’t do that.
“Gold Standard” Study Shows Charter Schools Outperform Public Schools
Ten years ago, I took part in a series of debates on school choice opposite Paul Cillo of the Public Assets Institute and Bill Mathis of the National Education Policy Center and the Vermont State Board of Education. I was for school choice; they were opposed.
With Test Scores Falling, Is Less School The Answer
Test scores in our public schools have been plummeting for years. The COVID Pandemic and remote learning definitely exacerbated the rate of decline. The number of students graduating from high school reading at the elementary school level is embarrassing but also harmful to the future of these students. We are failing our students and, therefore, … Read more
Your Kid’s School Went ‘Woke’? Consider Homeschool.
“Woke” culture has become so prominent in the American education system that it would not be surprising to learn that schools were replacing the once popular rhyme “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” with “sticks and stones may break my bones but opinions I disagree with can make … Read more
A Question for the “They are Our Kids” Schoolies after Teacher Films Herself Masturbating in Front of a Class room of 8-year olds
I have been a strong advocate for body cameras on public school teachers, and nothing I have seen since has dissuaded me from the idea.
Who’s Responsible for Failing Schools? … Parents who Notice and Complain, says Columnist.
Bill Schubart, a regular columnist for VT Digger among his many hats, never ceases to amaze me with his writing. He always provides an intriguing, insightful menu of facts and discoveries followed by a totally incongruous, twistedly partisan conclusion that makes absolutely no sense.
‘Anti’ Labels Are Lazy Journalism
A lot of journalists these days have a vocabulary problem. In particular, they think that if someone wants to repair or reform an institution, he is anti-[that institution].
Almost Everything Wrong With Public Education Explained in One Parent’s 3-Minute Rant
We’ve all thought about it, some of us have written about it, and I think most of us understand the problems with the direction in which public education has gone. Scores are down, issues are up, and as with everything the political or cultural left touches, they are the ones that broke it.
Hijacking the Schoolroom
Underneath the banner of struggles and the joys of family responsibilities, a nefarious scheme has worked to take advantage of those who think government education is free and good.
Let’s Stop Confusing Teaching With Learning
His Excellency just signed into law a bill that requires public schools to ‘provide instruction in cursive writing’ and ‘provide instruction of the multiplication tables’ by the end of fifth grade.
Call Them What They Are: Welfare Schools
Anyone who knows me has heard me quote Confucius: The first step towards wisdom is to call things by their right names. What we call things determines how we think about them and how we act toward them. This is why it’s time for us to stop using the term public school and replace it with … Read more
What Kind of Parent?
There’s a question that should be asked more often, which gets at the moral foundations of treating education as an entitlement. Suppose you own several properties in a town. You have two kids, who are being schooled at the expense of the town, which costs the town more than $500,000 over the course of two … Read more
Promoted from the Comments – A Contrarian View on “Call for Candidates: Run for School Board!”
Steve had put up a post a couple of days ago for the 603 Alliance’s School Board training to run for School Board positions: If you’re concerned about the decline in academic standards, the harm done by shutdowns and mandatory masking, and the politicization of our public schools, please consider running for School Board in … Read more
Brian the Foul-Mouthed 5th Grade Teacher No Longer Works for The Public School
Brian was a fifth-grade teacher with some very pro-socialist vaccine thoughts that he shared in a public space. We shared those a year ago, shortly after which Brian’s left-wing nuttery went into hiding. Now it seems that so has he.
Are Caucasians Victims of Planned Obsolescence?
With all of the negativity surrounding us with the current state of our nation, one questions whether it is a collection of random policies or is there a master plan. I do not want to give the Democrats too much credit by thinking they could be working on a massive, clandestine operation to transform America … Read more
SAU16/Exeter and the Failed Leadership That Drove Families to Leave
Problems have been plaguing the SAU16/ Exeter school district for a few years now. Parents have been fighting to improve their schools during this time, only to find themselves dismissed and ignored. What does this tend to do to families who are frustrated that their voices are being ignored?