Public Education Archives - Page 5 of 5

Notable Quote – You DO know where systemic racism is, right?

August 15, 2020 Skip

Emphasis mine: “People talk about implicit racism or systemic racism: rhe racism in this country, look no further than our public education system,” Barr said during an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity. “That’s a racist system maintained by the Democratic party and the teachers union, keeping inner city kids in failing schools instead … Read more

Government Schools: Valedictorian can’t do college remedial math?

December 7, 2019 Skip

I’ve written in the past that our public schools aren’t getting the job done and that’s why Parents should have choices in directing their childrens’ education. Our tax dollars should be following the child and not a zip code. This snippet from RedState puts the “evolving” notion of a school, thanks to the Left’s notion … Read more

Public School Liberal Bias – Capitalism and Fathers are Racist…

September 11, 2019

Is it appropriate to teach in public schools that capitalism and fathers are racist? What ever happened to judging a man by the content of his character? There’s a dangerous bit of academic nonsense happening at the K-12 level of education.

Nashua School Board is Asking for 3 Million More a Year for Latest Bad Idea in Education

July 8, 2019 Steve MacDonald

If you thought public education was expensive and increasingly useless, Nashua is prepared to double down on that. At tonight’s School Board meeting, they will “discuss” adding 3 million a year to the budget for Social Emotional Learning.

The Claremont Way

April 5, 2019 Jim Kofalt

In the mid-1990’s, the town of Claremont pleaded poverty, insisting that the rest of the state should pony up more money to fund its local schools. The result was the imposition of a wealth-redistribution scheme on the rest of our state. A decade later, Claremont wasn’t looking so poverty-stricken after all.

Religious discrimination in NH

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019 Norm Silber

Anyone who thinks that anti-Catholic bias is only alive and well among the Democrats in the US Congress questioning prospective Supreme Court nominees needs to think again and look no further than our own beloved state of New Hampshire, which was originally settled in large part by French-Canadian Catholics migrating Southward. After the great Irish … Read more

Education Funding? You’re all concentrating on the wrong thing (Parts 1 & 2)

January 15, 2019 Skip

“Taxpayers should be funding public benefits and not private enrichment. At the Northwood Community Center, Ian Underwood gave a presentation on educational funding that basically told the audience that we were thinking about the wrong thing. Much of the debate in NH (and elsewhere) always has money at the forefront – instead, we ought to … Read more

Public School Teacher Can’t Believe Black Student Supports Trump

October 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Cypress Bay High School (which happens to be in Broward County Florida) is under the microscope after a white teacher asked a black student, according to the student’s parents, “‘You’re African-American, how can you possibly like Donald Trump.’” On Sept. 25 the student noticed that his math teacher stayed seated during the recitation of the … Read more

NH State Senator Peggy Gilmour – I demand who should control education dollars

September 26, 2018April 19, 2013

And that would not be parents – From today’s Concord Patch: ‘Sen. Peggy Gilmour, D-Hollis, had urged her colleagues to overturn a committee recommendation and then pass the repeal bill. In a statement, she said, “The program has no accountability of public money. It allows private, non-profit corporations to determine where public education dollars are … Read more

What Ever Happened to The Inductive Method?

September 26, 2018February 16, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Another great video on education destined to make the public school union folks bleed out their eyes. Here’s the blurb from PJTV and Next Generation TV. Victor Davis Hanson joins Col. Allen B. West to discuss our modern system of education. In the zero sum game of educating our children, Dr. Hanson asks, who is … Read more

The Left’s War on Education

September 26, 2018January 12, 2013 Steve MacDonald

The left’s objection to even one tax dollar finding its way into the hands of a church is legion. It is (apparently) a matter of even greater concern that we might engage in tax policy that accidentally encourages others–by allowing them to keep more of their own money–to give some of it to a religious group.

Such is the current quandary, pressed into the arms of the New Hampshire Superior court judiciary; if a business owner is incentivized by the state to give their own money for a k-12scholarship to a non-profit that manages such scholarships, and some kid or their parents just happens to use their qualified scholarship award at a school run by a religious group, has the state shown an establishment of religion?

Nickel And Dimed Is Out

September 26, 2018January 12, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Once you get past the misleading headline from this morning’s Union Leader, ‘Nickel and Dimed’ Banned in Bedford, (it was not banned form Bedford, it was removed from the public school finance class curriculum) you will find that while the book is out, some of the stupidity remains.

How About Some Irony?

September 26, 2018December 21, 2010 Steve MacDonald

The Bedford school board has announced staff and program cuts to address problems with the next school budget. They are looking to trim $750,000.00 off the bottom line, $200,000.00 of which–it has been proposed–will come from eliminating full time teaching positions.