Tag: Public School

High School Still Pushing Trans Agenda

April 5, 2025 Aaron Warner

Hartford High School released its March newsletter sent out to all of the students and parents in the district. The monthly newsletter offers insight into a few of the key things the school is doing or focusing on that month ranging from special recognition to other in-house features concerning student options to purportedly enhance learning. … Read more

Is Pre-K Driving Up Property Taxes and Harming Kids?

March 21, 2025 Rob Roper

It’s been asked a lot lately with budgetary challenges running up against a lack of tax capacity, and the backdrop of DOGE findings of government waste at the federal level, “Do our elected representatives ever go back and evaluate the programs they pass to see if they are working as promised?” Not really, no. And … Read more

How Schools and the State Wastes Your Money

March 9, 2025 Ann Marie Banfield

Dear Commissioner, Legislators, Executive Councilors, and State Board of Education Members: We are seeing school budgets rising while enrollment declines. Changing the model in public schools to the Community School (CDC’s) model will certainly add to those escalating costs. Turning our schools into mental health facilities has brought a whole new set of problems, and next … Read more

Clawing Back Your Right to Free Expression One T-Shirt At A Time

March 6, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Remember when being a student also meant pushing back on authoritarian norms? Fighting the system. I never did any of that myself, not really, but I didn’t become political until I was in my forties. Our public schools were also not as politicized. There were always teachers’ unions, but it was never obvious or present … Read more

Is This Wyoming or Whineoming?

March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The Wyoming legislature took a big step toward respecting the Second Amendment with House Bill 72. It is, AN ACT relating to concealed weapons; repealing gun free zones; providing for the carrying of concealed weapons as specified; creating a criminal offense for prohibiting entry to a person carrying a concealed weapon as specified; clarifying that only … Read more

Gov. Ayotte proposes education freedom for public school students starting in 2026

February 22, 2025 Andrew Cline

In her proposed budget, Gov. Kelly Ayotte opens New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program to all students who’ve been enrolled in a New Hampshire public school (including chartered public schools) for at least a full academic year, the Josiah Bartlett Center has confirmed. The expansion would take effect July 1, 2026. Students who currently have … Read more

Transitioning (from Schools to Education)

February 18, 2025 Ian Underwood

I was recently asked: How would you go about eliminating public schools? I think we would eliminate public schools in the same way that we would eliminate public oil refineries, and public farms and ranches, and public grocery stores, and… Oh, wait, we don’t have those, do we? We don’t have those, because we have … Read more

“The Narrative Will Stop You”

February 7, 2025 Betsy Harrington

A story of how the “trans narrative” allowed an opportunistic sex offender to be welcomed into the Kearsarge public school community to offend its children Marc Jacques presented as a loving father and trans advocate in the community of Newbury, NH. He was happily married with two children before the Covid pandemic hit. Then his … Read more

NEA-NH Teacher’s Conference Has Student Mental Health Course

January 20, 2025 Steve MacDonald

I hope taxpayers aren’t covering the cost of admission. The NEA is the largest labor union in the US and, therefore, the largest teachers union, so when the NEA in NH announces a teacher’s conference, you’d be right to wonder what they want teachers to know. If you happen to be a member of the … Read more

A Child’s Christmas Wish

January 10, 2025 Betsy Harrington

Content Warning Kevin Gagnon’s son is an 8th-grade student at SAU 57 in Salem, NH. His son’s only Christmas wish this year was to return to public school to be with his friends. His father had become increasingly concerned about age-appropriate content in the school libraries. He was already upset by the Covid measures that he … Read more

Depths of Depravity

April 16, 2025November 16, 2024 Auntie Vaquser

I have been trying to get caught up on the local outrage and how could that journey not include what happened with Kearsage, Bow, and the underworld adventures of the Jaques – not Cousteau but Marc, and what’s his/her face (Male Jocks?). To summarize, as I understand it, the cast includes public school superintendents, coaches, … Read more

Embattled School District’s ‘Rules’ Set it Up to Get Sued Some More

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Thanks to petty despot (DBA: Superintendent Marcy Kelly), the Bow-Dunbarton School District is known worldwide. Kelley violated the constitutional rights of some parents, who have since sued her and others, and the district that employs her is scrambling to mitigate the damage. [I believe there is a court hearing today at 2:30]. As most of … Read more

Parents upset with proposed Pledge of Allegiance ban

October 6, 2024 Guy Page

In response to public outcry, a Bennington County school district is taking heat for what parents say is a recently announced ban on saying the Pledge of Allegiance. The Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union includes Mt. Anthony Union High School in Bennington, and schools in Pownal, Arlington, Shaftsbury, and Sandgate. According to the story reported by News 10 out … Read more

Bow NH:An Outrageous Violation of Civil Rights

September 20, 2024 Debra Blake

Regarding the controversy at a girls’ soccer game at Bow HS on 9/19/24, I am expressing my concern about banning a parent from attending future school activities. The parent, a retired veteran who served in the NH Guard as a helicopter pilot, was deployed multiple times while he had a family, including young children. While … Read more

Bow Public School, Free Speech Suppression,’The Streisand Effect,’ and Getting Sued

September 21, 2024September 20, 2024 Steve MacDonald

A local High school banned parents from attending games for wearing pink wristbands with two Xs. The school reportedly stopped the game and had them escorted out. [W]hen several parents showed up to watch Tuesday night’s soccer game between Bow and Plymouth Regional High School wearing pink armbands as symbols of support for girls-only sports, … Read more

Vaccine Hesitancy Makes Back to School More Complicated

September 13, 2024 John Klar

The vaccine wars unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic have not been limited to disputes about science, such as vaccine efficacy or safety. Uncharted constitutional waters shape differing views of individual liberties in state and federal courts as clashes over vaccine mandates, especially for young schoolchildren, are taking center stage. Parents of public school kids are … Read more

Kearsarge School District is Breaking the Law

September 8, 2024 Nancy Biederman

At the August 29th Kearsarge School District meeting, the school board members voted 6-1 to allow a junior boy to play on the Girl’s Soccer team. This reversed their decision from two weeks prior to follow the new NH state law HB 1205 that prohibits biological boys from playing on a girl only team from … Read more

Meet Stephen Scaer, Candidate for NH Senate, Nashua

September 1, 2022 Stephen Scaer

My name is Stephen Scaer, and I am running for the NH State Senate in District 13, which encompasses Nashua Wards 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9. I have lived in Nashua for 28 years.

Help Starting a Charter School

October 8, 2019 Norm Silber

If the thought of being able to send your child or children to a public charter school appeals to you, but you have no idea of where to begin, may I suggest that the founding group of parents (yes- we need at least 10 parents to make this work) try to establish a working relationship … Read more

Democrat Education Plans Repeat Previous Failures

September 26, 2018October 4, 2012 Don

The debates between Maggie Hassan, Democrat, and Ovide Lamontaigne, Republican, remind me that the success of our children is at stake in this election. Democrat allegiance to Unions and the Educational Establishment lock children into failing public schools.

Today’s Democrat solution to educational problems has been providing increasingly poorer results for decades, just spend more money. That fits Einstein’s definition of insanity, “doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” More money is not the solution, it just raises the cost of poor results.