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Sometimes you hear a story, and it snaps you back in time to the old supermarket tabloids where aliens were overtaking Mother Earth every week. Today’s story falls into the bizarre category, and you have to wonder if every elected official, from school board to city council, has lost their collective minds. According to multiple … Read more
A Patch story caught my eye, and a light bulb went off. All those gazillions of dollars we’ve wasted on public education when we could have been cherishing seminaries, literature, or science. If you recall, the justification for state-managed gambling was that we’d be investing in public schools. Without looking at how much more expensive … Read more
The prophetic words of German playwright, poet, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller 1759-1805 pinpointed what has gradually happened in American public schools over the past hundred years: “ It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal the mind of a nation), The blame diminishes as the … Read more
Introduction The record of the 1850 New Hampshire constitutional convention somehow went missing with no explanation until it was discovered in the state archives in 1980. After it was discovered, the convention record was organized and published in 2005. The state Supreme Court did not have this all-important document when it decided the Claremont decision. … Read more
Six-Figure Salaries, Rising SPED Costs, and the Questions We’re Not Asking Across our state, SAU superintendents and administrators are paid six-figure salaries to lead public school systems that are supposed to serve all students well. Yet year after year, public confidence erodes, student outcomes stagnate, and special education (SPED) budgets continue to climb. At some … Read more
It is not lost on anyone anymore that when Democrats use the word affordable in front of any other word, it means subsidized money laundering into Democrat campaigns. And not to kick a dead donkey, but I’ve been more than clear about how and why Democrats don’t have a clue how to do it any … Read more
Here’s a thought experiment for you to try. Imagine that you meet with your employer to tell him all the things you want to buy, and how much money you’d need to be able to pay for them. You tell him that you think you should get paid whatever amount would be needed to make … Read more
After receiving the full ESSER I, II, and III expenditure files, I’ve completed a detailed and source-cited analysis of Nashua’s COVID-era funding, current fiscal management, and the broader demographic trends that have been repeatedly ignored. What emerges is a pattern of short-term financial decisions, politicized narratives, and resistance to data-driven planning that has left taxpayers … Read more
On today’s GT Morning Update, a kid in a middle school secures a firearm from another student, unloads it, disassembles it, and gets expelled. Right? Wrong? Details matter, as does the reporting. Cited Sources: https://archive.is/lPKwZ#selection-747.0-751.46https://www.wilx.com/2025/09/19/lansing-parent-frustrated-after-her-son-is-expelled-disarming-classmate/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-mom-says-11-year-old-son-expelled-disarming-classmate-dismant-rcna233152https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-sakir-everett-a-brave-studenthttps://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/09/23/was-a-michigan-student-punished-for-disarming-fellow-student-n1230002 Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or … Read more
Democrats got pissy (by which I mean the Handmaiden media) when the Federal agency tasked with public health safety rejected a combo-vaccine because, based on their expert opinion, the way we’ve been doing it was safer. The MMRV combo is still acceptable for kids four years and older, but based on the available research, they … Read more
Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot … Read more
Harjinder Singh could barely read or speak English, but he had an excuse. He wasn’t from here, entered the nation illegally, where Democrats provided a work permit and CDL licenses in two states, to drive trucks, which ended in the unnecessary deaths of three people in Florida. Democrat fingerprints are all over this “crime” as … Read more
Andru Volinsky’s op-ed about Claremont’s financial crisis assumes a premise that is flatly wrong.
I reviewed Kelly Ayotte’s tweets for 5 days, Friday through today, the Tuesday after Labor Day. Keeping in mind that she is a human being and that she probably has some staff member doing her social media for her, she is still the captain of the ship, both for her staff and all of the … Read more
Judging by the passion in the room, you might conclude that sports, not literacy, are the real core mission of public education.
As I watch the Claremont school board hold hearings about its current challenges, a few thoughts occur to me over and over again.
As in most previous years, the Claremont school board thought it would be able to fund the coming school year through a ransom. And just like that… the board learned that it will have to rely on a budget
r school district may leave plenty to be desired, but when measured against the infamous Loudon County Schools in Northern Virginia, there is likely much to be thankful for.
Introduction: A System in Survival Mode Parents in the Claremont School District (SAU6) are living through a crisis that can no longer be brushed aside as a temporary budget hiccup. The district is not merely facing a “tight year.” It is confronting a full-blown financial collapse brought on by years of mismanagement, structural deficits, and … Read more
In 2012, U.S. Army Master Sergeant Cedric King woke up from a coma in Afghanistan to discover that his legs had been amputated. Today, 8 years later, Cedric says if given the chance, he’d do it all over again. You’ll hear his story of finding tremendous growth in tragedy by relinquishing control and expectations. In … Read more