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BCRC – Parts 1 & 2 of the Q&A session after NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut’s address
Folks know that GraniteGrok is at the tip of the spear against what is going on in the various School Districts around the State. Both Ann Marie and I are putting up a lot of posts on a number of the SAUs that have decided that they don’t have to Follow The Law and also … Read more
Belknap County Republican Committee – Intro Ceremonies and Remarks, and NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut
The Belknap County Republicans had their monthly last night at the Gilford Community Church in Gilford, NH. The keynote speaker, as the title above notes, was Frank Edelblut who is the current NH Commissioner of Education. IMHO, probably the best person to be in that seat during this last year and a half. Very knowledgeable, … Read more
Life with Liz – School Board Showdown: The I’m Not Taking it Anymore Edition
Liz and I talked later on – the segment worked but…Normally, a host asks a question or throws out an idea or scenario and looks for a short, pithy response. After all, it’s THEIR show, not mine or any other guest or caller.
603 Alliance RevCon 2021 – Donna Green’s The Problem with School Boards: Inertia, Ignorance, Misplaced Loyalties, and Left-Wing Agendas”
Donna Green, Founder and President of the School District Governance of NH (“SDGANH”) gave her presentation “The Problem with School Boards: Inertia, Ignorance, Misplaced Loyalties, and Left-Wing Agendas” at 603 Alliance’s RevCon 2021 event last Saturday.
Simon Campbell is Back to talk about School Boards, Free Speech, and Intimidation Tactics
If you missed our first report involving Simon Campbell, you can check that out here. It relates to this latest bit of news. He’s a very outspoken advocate for free speech who takes no crap but is happy to take prisoners.
Speaker Takes School Board to the Wood Shed over Free Speech in America
Forget cat videos, the internet is flooding with public comment delivered to the local school board. And there’s a theme. The Education Industrial Complex has been naughty, and needs a paddle to the rhetorical fanny with the “Board of Education.”
At Odds with Almost Every Public School Union Teacher in the US – CRT Stack of Stuff Part 11
Here is yet another example of a Teacher having a “mini meltdown” because she can’t indoctrinate “HER” kids anymore. That’s for starters. It goes downhill from there. Remember, reformatting at play and emphasis (generally) is mine:
Thank You for Ruining My Kids’ Education. Now You Will Answer for It.
Good evening, As I discuss with my son his socialist, feckless, “everyone gets a trophy” grading system that YOU ignored the petition of over 300 students and parents to change; and as I now KNOW that many of you signed into effect a transgender policy whereby teachers can call MY kids doorknobs, he, she, they, it, etc. without ANY parental knowledge;
An Entire School Board Resigns After Getting Caught Disparaging Parents in an Online Meeting
It is a best practice to assume that boards and committees in your municipality, be it a plucky berg or a sprawling metropolis, secretly (or not so secretly) hold disdain for the people they claim to serve. The more liberal the area, the worse that attitude will be. They are not your friends, and you are a barrier to their agenda. Take this School board.
What to Do Now That Your School is Not Opening?
What can you do if you want your kids back in school but your School Board members (your elected representatives) have been “captured” by the staff, or as the NH School Board Association put it: defered to your professionals.
“We Hold These Truths: Our Answer To The Mob”
It is our teachers and public education, writ large, that have failed the country; by not teaching Civics and History correctly or adequately. For not turning the barbarians-in-training into knowledgeable and invested Citizens. Instead, they have turned YOUR children against this nation and its history.
Your Tax Money Supporting Censorship in Exeter, Henniker, and Keene
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Transparency about the workings of an organization prevents corruption. Speaking of corruption, inasmuch as the portion of your property tax bill going to the public schools is the single largest portion of that bill, did you ever wonder what they are doing with all your money? While their mission is … Read more
Hold The Line – GrokInterview with Kimberly Morin
Before all of the testimony on the Democrat Second Amendment infringing bills started, I caught up with the Womens’ Defense League honchos (and Groksters!) Kimberly Morin and Susan Olsen who graciously agreed to spend a few minutes with GraniteGrok. Here, Kimberly Morin shares her thoughts with me AND sends a message to Gov. Chris Sununu … Read more
SDGANH: “Preparing for the Future of Schooling” – NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut (Part 1)
In this seminar, presented by the School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”), the topic of what will schools and education look like in the future was discussed and what school board members need to know NOW about the changes (technological, demographic, economic, and political) that they will be facing and ways to view potential … Read more
Tales from the BudComm – Another Budcomm Member’s Memories of Dealing with their School Board. It ain’t pretty
…from Steve’s ‘New Hampshire Needs an Income Tax” as it is SO true in my dealings with them and the same thing appears to be the same State wide. It’s almost, like, well, er…they’ve formed a group and they all collude together to screw the taxpayers (oh WAIT, there IS such a group!):
I served on my town’s Budget Committee for several years, and a couple of years as Chairman. While we struggled with individual departments in the town over their practices and requests, the town itself — even under some bad leadership — was still pretty even keeled, budget wise. But the struggles we had with the town were nothing compared to the annual struggle with the school district.
Quick Thought: HB 1319 – asked and answered
As to Gov. Chris “Supporting the Democrat Agenda Identity Group politics against the NH GOP” in signing HB1319, I was asked earlier today:
Where do you stand?
Answer: It demands coerced speech and behavior from those that do not believe that a man can simply announce that he is a woman and MUST refer to him as such (contra our lying eyes). It now sets up transgenders as a whole as yet another special interest group, another “protected class” that now has “elevated” privileges not available to the general public. With Sununu’s signature of Friday, they have risen to the top of the Progressive Identity Totem Pole ranking at least for the weekend (as that ranking seems to change every few minutes than a pachinko ball changes its direction; said ranking seems to be in constant flux based on the “political opportunity” at hand and it is their club.).
It also places half the population, females, into a lowered status physically; the two examples are from Connecticut and Texas where trans girls winning girls’ state championships simply because they announced they are now girls and not boys. What is the fairness in that? Is it the goal, for Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism reasons, to wipe out any commonsense differences between the two sexes? After all, you can’t call it a “social construct” on one hand and “Patriarchy” on the other at the same time.
NH Progressive Senators on school nurses- “local control is fine” (but only as long as you agree with us!)
State Senate refuses to roll back school nurse requirements
NH State Senator Woodburn basically just said exactly that about who controls the standards for school nurses:
“We need to have school nurses who are on top of the details and know what’s going on,” said Sen. Jeff Woodburn, D-Whitefield, in opposition to the rollback. “We settled this issue last year. The policy has been set. We need to keep the policy and not be flip-flopping all over the place every two years.”
Yet, when it comes to guns on school properties, these same Progressive Democrats were some upset that they didn’t get their way with NH State Senator Hennessey’s amendment to allow local School Boards, wern’t they? You see, they KNOW that most School Boards, being one of the foxholes that defend the Liberal mantras, would agree with them and carry out the NH Senate Democrats in banning guns on their premises. So LET them have control, we BELIEVE in local control!
Yeah, right – until they don’t.
HB1279 – “AN ACT relative to voting rights of certain budget committee members”
From the text of the bill (actually, this is pretty much most of it): 1 Budget Committee Membership. Amend RSA 32:15, I(b) to read as follows:
(b) One member of the governing body of the municipality and, if the municipality is a town, one member of the school board of each school district wholly within the town and one [member] commissioner of each village district wholly within the town, all of whom shall be appointed by their respective boards to serve for a term of one year and until their successors are qualified. Each such member shall serve as a non-voting member and may be represented by an alternate member designated by the respective board, who shall, when sitting, have the same authority as the regular member.
While I was in Concord this week, I ran into ‘Grok, friend NH State Rep. Mark Warden, who is one of the sponsors of the bill and asked him “why the changes for SB2 Budget Committee?” since I have been an elected BudComm member in my hamlet for the past 6 years. Note: never again will I do an interview in a stairwell – apologies for the poor audio – but that was the only place we could find with decent lighting and a lack of foot traffic):
I also had the chance last night to quickly interview fellow BudComm member, Kevin Leandro, as he had given testimony to Mark Warden’s House Committee: