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Superintendent Responds to My Right To Know Request…

March 5, 2025 Skip

School Superintendent Kirk Beitler said what I thought was a really revealing AND Stupid thing to say for a Government employee “with Status.” Which was a LONG nine days ago – almost an eternity ago in the blogosphere: “Tolerance is fine but acceptance is the goal.” In his position (e.g., think COO) as the head … Read more

Tales from the School Board – Here We Go Again! Part 1

February 22, 2025February 16, 2025 Skip

The Subtitle that’s driving this: “Tolerance is fine but acceptance is the goal.” Title IX simply reads: Title IX simply reads: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving … Read more

Gilford School Board Meeting 9/12/22. Policy JBAB (transgender & nonbinary students) on the agenda

September 20, 2022 Skip

There were all the “normal” items that they go through in a school board meeting but the interest from the few “public” folks that were there was on Policy JBAB that the NH School Board Association deep-sixed and basically told any District that had adopted it that they were on their own (including Gilford) – … Read more

School Board Assoc. “Bails” on Transgender Policy – Abandons Districts Facing Lawsuits from Parents

May 16, 2022 Skip

The New Hampshire School Board Association has bailed on its policy JBABA, the transgender guidance proposed to NH districts a few years back, leaving districts facing lawsuits in the lurch. That would be SAU16 (Exeter), SAU37 (Manchester), and SAU73 (Gilford).

Mask Mandates Ending?

January 27, 2022 Op-Ed

So now that the CDC has admitted openly (not hidden in a CDC-funded study) that cloth masks don’t work are you still going to insist on this obsession with masking children?

Right to Know Demand – Your Ethics Policy Outlines a Number of Items That a School Board Shall Comply With…”

August 5, 2021 Skip

I may well be a strange bird at times (as we all can be), but lately, and for obvious reasons, I’m reading School Board Policies. You know, those documents that describe how a School District is to operate in its entirety.

DESSA, Social Sentinel – RSA 91-A Right To Know demand – student and personal data – Part 2

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Skip

This was a more lengthy Right To Know I sent to SAU 73 Superintendent Kirk Beitler than what I sent to our Town Clerk / Tax Collector (and modeled after Grokster Ann Marie’s one to SAU 16 Superintendent David Ryan). And answer he did.

Gilford School Board: when a Transgender policy has violations but no penalties? Use an RSA 91:A Demand

September 10, 2019 Skip

The entire policy is here. Yes, this is going to be a thing for a while – yet another attempt of mandating another left leaning policy in which we Normals are supposed to tolerate, accept, affirm, and believe in what is a mental disorder (last I knew, sexual dysphoria is still in the book as … Read more

Can the Gilford School Board (SAU73) get any more tone deaf over their new Transgender policy?

September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 Skip

So, one of the complaints that was issued by a parent at the last School Board Meeting was that this new transgender policy was just SPRUNG on parents; noticed during the last week of August when many could have been out of town and little time to get the word out.