Tag: Remote Learning

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How To Keep Mindfulness During Online Education

May 24, 2022 Guest Contributor

Online education has already become the same full-fledged format as offline. However, with the various possibilities of virtual learning, the requirements for the quality of online education have grown. After all, today online is not so much entertainment as the most effective way to receive and exchange information. For education, access to virtual resources is … Read more

Public Education is Broken

July 15, 2024December 21, 2021 Steve MacDonald

I had a chat this morning with Liz Gabert about COVID Era Public Education, and some of the issues with public schools in General. I’d classify it as “easy listening” unless you are some union-schooly-tool. Then you might need a few antacids and a trip to your therapist. 12m 36s You can also listen … Read more

Are Hooksett Students Educated or Indoctrinated? It’s Time to Educate!

July 27, 2021 Ann Marie Banfield

Last school year was extremely difficult for students enrolled in public schools. It didn’t have to be that way because private schools managed quite well during the pandemic. Many private schools and some public schools opened with a manageable plan in place.

Public Official Censors Public Comment in Online Meeting to Control the Optics

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Doris Hohensee

On Monday, February 8th, the Nashua Board of Education held a contentious meeting over “remote” vs. “hybrid” learning. After nearly a year of waiting, “hybrid” might finally be an option in Nashua.

Board of Ed. President Condemns Discussion of Suicide by Students in “Remote” Learning as “Fear” Mongering

February 9, 2021 Doris Hohensee

Last night Nashua Board of Education President Heather Raymond chastised board members not to suggest that there could be any causal link between the isolation of “remote” learning and student suicides.

COVID Response is Creating an Exponential Increase in Mental Health Emergencies – In Children

November 30, 2020 Steve MacDonald

While everyone is obsessing with cases and plotting a new round of infringements on basic liberties those very things are harming lives. The CDC has documented double-digit increases in mental-health emergencies for children but no one is covering that.

New Hampshire Attorney General Rewrites Voting Law (Again) to Help Elect Democrats (Again)

October 23, 2020 Ed Mosca

So … if you regularly read Granite Grok, which I encourage you to do, you know the New Hampshire Attorney General recently rejected a request by the New Hampshire GOP to opine that college students who returned to their actual homes and are “remote learning” in New Hampshire are NOT eligible to vote in the … Read more

Our Students Should Be Looking at 100% in-Class Instruction

October 22, 2020 Op-Ed

I have an exercise that I hope that every person in Windham will go through. Please humor me as I lay out what I am asking all of you to do.

Does Anyone Else Find This Moronic, or Am I Alone Here?

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Op-Ed

The current senior class at Windham High School (WHS) has certainly had the most challenging time of any previous graduating class. I think we can agree that to lose all activities from the spring of your junior year is more than disappointing.

Nashua Parent Voice to March on District Offices

October 2, 2020 Op-Ed

When: 9:00am Monday, October 5, 2020
Where: 141 Ledge Street, Nashua, NH 03060

Why: In a letter dated September 18, 2020, the Superintendent of the Nashua Public School District delayed in-person learning until January 2021, except for a small population of IEP students, Kindergarten, and Grade 1.

Gov Sununu Issues Emergency Order #67 to Regulate Parents’ Remote Learning Pods

September 14, 2020 Doris Hohensee

Back in March Governor Sununu suspended the state attendance law, which requires children ages 6-18 years old to attend a state-approved school for 180 days of instruction per year. He essentially created a law, authorizing remote learning for students indefinitely.

Computer Crimes Called After Porn Image Appears in NH Online “Classroom”

September 13, 2020 Steve MacDonald

If anyone can ruin the potential of online learning, it’s the public school system, but that’s not what this story is about. Not exactly. Three recent New Hampshire incidents highlight the unlikelihood of anyone learning anything with the government in charge of distance learning.

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Merrimack School District Cheats Students

September 2, 2020 Op-Ed

Here we go again. The Merrimack School District fumbles the re-opening of schools even though they have had months to get it right.

School Districts are Transforming Public Education in Violation of NH State Law

August 4, 2020July 31, 2020 Doris Hohensee

Governor Sununu has no authority to create positive law, allowing public school districts to transform public education in violation of NH state law. Nor can the governor downshift any unfunded expenses upon the districts to create these alternative learning programs in addition to their normal statutory obligations.

Shouldn’t we Get a Tax Refund for Schools Being Closed?

July 23, 2020 Op-Ed

Have you reached out to your town tax collector in the past month for a partial refund of your real estate taxes? Actually, have you ever looked at your itemized real estate tax bill to see how much of it goes to funding your local schools? It’s a huge portion of your taxes, trust me.

Is it a Bad Idea to Replace Classrooms and Teachers with Digital Learning?

July 14, 2020 Ann Marie Banfield

For several years, those of us who research public education noticed the push for placing children in front of a screen to do the work of the teacher. We’ve seen it with the push for 1:1 devices. And yet Silicon Valley techies have done the opposite.

COVID19: Are Teacher’s Unions Unintentionally Destroying their Education Monopoly?

July 10, 2020 Steve MacDonald

I know people in public education, and watchdogs outside of it. There is pressure for Public Schools to not go back to in-person learning. At least not right away. But that’s a problem for a lot of people, or maybe not. Catholic Schools are stepping up to offer an alternative.

Op-Ed – Applying lessons of remote instruction when we go back to school

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Op-Ed

I recently spoke to a pair of high school juniors with very different perspectives on remote instruction.

Leslie (not her real name) was committed to keeping a strict schedule when schools shifted to remote instruction in April.

VIDEO: Remote Learning Conversation with Commissioner Edelblut

April 15, 2020

Last night Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire hosted a discussion with Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut and SBOE Chair Drew Cline. The conversation focused on Remote Learning in New Hampshire because of COVID, state policy changes that needed to be made to make it possible, why NH was able to leap into Remote Learning … Read more

Tell us YOUR story on Remote Learning

March 28, 2020

Remote Learning has now been in effect for at least a full week statewide, longer in many districts. I want to hear from you about how it’s going so far. Good stories, bad stories, in between. Shoot me an email with your remote learning experience at chris+remotelearning@maidmentnh.com Look forward to hearing from you!