Category Archives: Education
What Education Is About
Thanks to Ann Marie Banfield, Grok contributor at large, for posting this link on Facebook. It is a letter to the editor, in the Hollis -Brookline Journal, that needs no further exposition on my part: School’s function is education Friday, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Local NH Politics
Tagged Education, New Hampshire, nhsteve, Public
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Union Thuggery -Coming Soon To A State House near You.
I was just thinking back to all the loose talk from the left about ending the gun ban in the New Hampshire State House. How they imagined someone just unloading over testimony supporting same sex marriage–to use one example–kids getting cut down in the cross-fire. And how they fell over themselves trying to scare parents into keeping their children from ever visiting the place because it was now just too dangerous. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Democrats, Education, Hypocrats, Public Sector Unions, Unions
Tagged Civility, nhsteve, Public Sector, State House, Unions, Violence, Wisconsin
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Drop Out Rate Result of Changing Methodology
The headline reads Dropout rates below 1%. Eight paragraphs into the love fest we find out what (pat on the back) I was just complaining about a few weeks ago. Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Education, New Hampshire News
Tagged Drop out rate, Education, John Lynch, New Hampshire, nhsteve, politics
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Why Did They Raise The Drop Out Age To 18?
As debate proceeds on the NH House bill HB 429 which returns the drop out age to sixteen (A 16 year old could leave school with a parents permission), John Lynch and the education community have come out against this change and responded with warnings of the potential consequences. They then entertain us with ‘success stories’ resulting from their raising the drop out age to 18 just a few years ago. Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Education, Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News
Tagged Drop outs, Education, Mac Donald, New Hampshire, politics, SB 18, Steve
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The Cost of Defining “Adequate” In Merrimack NH
A funny thing happened on the way to the ‘off-hand comment’ on the Merrimack TEA facebook page. I was accused of not using “real and accurate data” and that my “rhetoric was not doing anyone any good.” Continue reading
Posted in Debt/Spending, Education, Local NH Politics, Public Sector Unions
Tagged Budget, Merrimack, New Hampshire, Public School, Spending, UNH
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Bedford School District Book Woes Re-ignite
The Bedford Public School system is back in the news again. Another book has popped up in the curriculum that is questioning the standards of the towns (cough-cough) educational experts. This time is it ‘Water For Elephants.” Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Democrats, Education, New Hampshire News, Progressives
Tagged Bedford, Books, New Hampshire, Public School, Water For Elephants
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Guns vs Progressives
For those reading this from police states like Massachusetts, New York or New Jersey…Venezuela, Cuba and so on, you might be asking what the hell am I talking about? Allow me to review. Continue reading
Lube Job Redux
It’s been fun to watch the Soap Opera unfold after AIDS Services got caught up in a kerfuffle over ‘sex kits’ distributed at Monadnock High School. Everyone went into CYA mode as what seemed like a perfectly normal activity … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News
Tagged Education, New Hampshire, Safe Sex, Sex
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Lube Job
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 09:09AM In a front page story from the Wednesday Union Leader the group AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region has run into trouble. After a presentation at a local High School they offered ‘safe sex … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, New Hampshire News
Tagged AIDS Services, Education, Monadnock, New Hampshire, Public School, Sex
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Blog Round Up 1-1-2011
Here are a few posts from the past week to take a peek at… Ancient Chinese Secret In an amusing week for Carol Shea-Porter, in which she almost sounded McCarthyesque in her suspicions of Chinese communist cash infiltrations into … Continue reading
The New Media Militia 