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Firefighter’s Union Pushes Back And I See an Opportunity…

January 11, 2025 Steve MacDonald

I’ve seen a rise in town fire department and emergency service issues reports from readers around the state. They all seem to be having problems. And? I wonder if this is how we break the SAU local school district’s death grip on property taxes. Few if any will say property taxes are low or just … Read more

Disastrous Public Schools Part 1 (Merrimack-Science)

January 16, 2025January 10, 2025 Ann Marie Banfield

Parents showed up to the recent budget meeting in Merrimack to ask the committee to reconsider what the school administrators are proposing. The school budget, and spending, has climbed by an alarming rate over the last few years, $5M per year since 2021. This is in addition to all of the ESSER (federal) funds Merrimack … Read more

The Media Is Still Lying To Parents

January 1, 2025 John Klar

Numerous mainstream media outlets are deliberately lying to American parents about the law regarding COVID-19 vaccines. In August, Vermont’s Supreme Court that ruled a six-year-old boy administered a COVID-19 vaccine against his parents’ specific instructions that he not be jabbed has no state tort remedies and that the family’s sole recourse is a federal claim … Read more

Fallout from Ruling on Unauthorized Vaccinations

December 19, 2024 John Klar

In 2021, Leo Politella’s parents were specifically assured by their local Vermont public school officials that their 6-year-old son would not be vaccinated with a novel Covid-19 vaccine at an upcoming school clinic. Leo’s father visited the school the week before to ask whether he should keep his son home the day of the vaccination … Read more

Schools Counsel children — to be Democrats

November 16, 2024 John Klar

But Bernie-blue Vermont continuedsto shamelessly push anti-MAGA propaganda spewed by the mainstream media — in public schools, by paid teachers.

Hillsboro Deering Girls Take a Stand to Support Girls Only Sports

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

After a tumultuous week in Bow, during which parents were issued no trespass orders for wearing pink wristbands with XX written on them, we now have girls in Hillsboro Deering refusing to play soccer. Today, several girls from the Hillsboro Deering Varsity Soccer team refused to play their game against Kearsarge. The Kearsarge team includes a … Read more

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Manchester Schools: GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF HERE

September 8, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

With the recent ruling by the New Hampshire Supreme Court, parents were issued a warning shot: GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF HERE. That first came when the attorney for the school district told the New Hampshire Supreme Court Justices that parents can remove their children from the school if they don’t like it. In this … Read more

Court Says PREP Act Protects School that Jabbed Kid Without Consent

August 14, 2024 Steve MacDonald

At the end of July, the Vermont State Supreme Court issued a decision on a lawsuit brought by parents whose grade-school child had been injected with a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ against their will. According to the school, the six-year-old was inoculated in error, for which they apologized, but the parents sued them … Read more

Exeter High School Officials Lied in “Only Two Genders” Case

July 24, 2024July 23, 2024 Steve MacDonald

In the halcyon days of 2021, the Exter School District made all sorts of news. In June, we broke a story that went national about how the High School managed unvaccinated prom attendees. And why not? The Exeter Regional School District already had a long line of embarrassing reports exposing its woke, anti-liberty tendencies (and lawsuits … Read more

Sununu Signs Bill Expanding Parental Notification Law to Include Gender Curriculum

July 20, 2024July 20, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The New Hampshire Legislature put several pro-women, pro-child, and pro-parent bills on Governor Chris Sununun’s desk this session. This is an accomplishment, given the razor-thin Republican majority, participation (attendance) issues inherent in a true citizen legislature, and defections on key bills. We always want and expect more, but then we must. Expectations matter, and there … Read more

PAYNE: Is It Time to Get Your Kids Out?

December 8, 2025June 1, 2024 Russ Payne

Beware of what authority figures tell you about what happened before your birth. Why do modern proponents of evolutionary theory self-edit the full title of Charles Darwin’s revolutionary book “On the Origin of Species”? It is because it would reveal that Charles Darwin advocated racism rather than science. Darwin’s book is “On the Origin of … Read more

NH Public Schools Now Free to Blame and Shame Your Children for Slavery

May 31, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

A few years ago, the New Hampshire legislature passed an anti-discrimination law that restricted teachers from blaming New Hampshire students for slavery. Ok, here is the actual information on what the law did.

The ‘Dome’ Winooski Built

May 6, 2024 Steve MacDonald

It’s weird what you remember. I distinctly remember being at my friend Phil’s house in the late 70s (early 80s?) and seeing a copy of Yankee Magazine. The featured article was about a proposal to put a dome over Winooski, Vermont.

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Homeschooling Survey: They Use Many Different Methods to Learn to Read

May 2, 2024 Jody Underwood

Homeschooled students typically score 15 to 25 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests, according to The National Home Education Research Institute.

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More Independent Schools and More Choice Are the Property Tax Solution

April 28, 2024 Rob Roper

Vermont taxpayers are desperate for relief, especially in regard to funding public education. The only way to provide that relief is to return spending levels on Pre-K to 12^th to something resembling normal pre-Covid levels.

Food For Thought on Schooling

April 23, 2024 Op-Ed

I just thought of something: how about testing when starting school? Then Some kids may start in 1st grade and some may start in 2nd grade or even third. Then every year they take their “Proficiency Test” as long as they test to the next grade off they go, if not they get held back. If they test ahead of their class again, they could skip a grade again if the parents agree.

The Unmasking Bill Should Pass

November 19, 2024April 6, 2024 Arlene Quaratiello

Now that the COVID pandemic is behind us, we must thoughtfully evaluate what happened during this unprecedented time and prudently consider what should be done if a similar crisis ever happens again. One of the major issues that emerged during this challenging period was the mandatory wearing of face masks in schools.

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Merrimack Should Reject School Budgets Until They Can Teach Kids to Read …

March 27, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Usually, when you hire someone to do something, and they don’t or can’t do it, you do not then give them more responsibility or reward them with additional revenue. But let’s say you do, and they fail again and again. At what point do you stop rewarding failure?

School District Overspent – Has $800,000 Deficit (Still Can’t Teach Kids to Read at Grade level)

March 25, 2024 Steve MacDonald

A local New Hampshire Public School system has a problem—they all have issues—but this one is $800,000 over budget. The not-so-superintendent, William Rearick, says revenue projections were inaccurate, and now the School Board is drafting a list of things the district will have to do without.

Book Report: “Stop Lying about Education Savings Accounts”

March 18, 2024 Julie Smith

When I learned that Ian Underwood’s latest book was available, I eagerly awaited an opportunity to buy it. An in-person sale that didn’t require excessive miles on my odometer. Today was the day because his wife had a table at an event in my zip code.