The NH State Plan in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) does not represent the direction we believe is best for our state – and our children.
We believe:
- Our schools should focus on academics – not social and emotional learning. We do not want our schools involved in assessing our children’s attitudes, emotions, or empathy.
- Parental involvement must become the priority. If our children are having issues of any kind in school, parental involvement must be the priority.
- Primary accountability for a child rests with parents. As stated in our Constitution, “All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them”.
- We are more interested in factors other than test scores. Factors such as appreciation for our values and involvement, a safe environment, better school discipline, high quality teachers who also care about my child, feedback from teachers, better academics, my child's attitude about school.
- The teaching of our children should not be turned over to computerized instructional systems in the name of “personalized” instruction. We value high quality teachers in the classroom and understand the positive outcomes when they are teaching and engaging our children.
- We want high quality and developmentally appropriate standards education standards rather than those “pushed” by national groups and education elites who have financial interests in those standards.
- All NH schools must be rated – not just Title I schools - based on factors of importance to parents.
- If schools are failing year after year, we cannot continue to just throw more money and resources at them. Our children are the losers.
- We are not interested in the state tracking our children and are concerned about privacy and data confidentiality.
- The state must recognize that even a great school might not be the best fit for every child. Each child is unique.
- We want education choices for our children.
Updates
June 8, 2017
I honestly did not think this would gain this much steam so fast because it feels like people are finally waking up to what is happening in these schools and it is honestly wild to watch the notifications pile up while I am trying to drink my coffee. The momentum here is totally real and it just shows that parents just want to be involved again without all the extra noise getting in the way of actual learning.
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I totally agree with this petition. Public schools have declined horribly since the 1970s despite skyrocketing costs. It has become controlled by a bureaucracy with little or no control by local parents or taxpayers. Private school choice with public funding is the answer. Let parents chose where and how to educate their children not school boards dominated by public school bureaucrats.
I hope our state board of education takes a long hard look at the proposal before signing off.
Keep education local.
Teacher here... please stop ESSA!
The Federal Government needs to stay out of our State, and Local governments. If we can't afford it we should not have it , period
NH State Rep, lelected ocal school board member
Let NH lead. The feds don't know our people and culture.
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The NH State Plan in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) does not represent the direction we believe is best for our state – and our children.
We believe:
- Our schools should focus on academics – not social and emotional learning. We do not want our schools involved in assessing our children’s attitudes, emotions, or empathy.
- Parental involvement must become the priority. If our children are having issues of any kind in school, parental involvement must be the priority.
- Primary accountability for a child rests with parents. As stated in our Constitution, “All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them”.
- We are more interested in factors other than test scores. Factors such as appreciation for our values and involvement, a safe environment, better school discipline, high quality teachers who also care about my child, feedback from teachers, better academics, my child's attitude about school.
- The teaching of our children should not be turned over to computerized instructional systems in the name of “personalized” instruction. We value high quality teachers in the classroom and understand the positive outcomes when they are teaching and engaging our children.
- We want high quality and developmentally appropriate standards education standards rather than those “pushed” by national groups and education elites who have financial interests in those standards.
- All NH schools must be rated – not just Title I schools - based on factors of importance to parents.
- If schools are failing year after year, we cannot continue to just throw more money and resources at them. Our children are the losers.
- We are not interested in the state tracking our children and are concerned about privacy and data confidentiality.
- The state must recognize that even a great school might not be the best fit for every child. Each child is unique.
- We want education choices for our children.
Updates
June 8, 2017
I honestly did not think this would gain this much steam so fast because it feels like people are finally waking up to what is happening in these schools and it is honestly wild to watch the notifications pile up while I am trying to drink my coffee. The momentum here is totally real and it just shows that parents just want to be involved again without all the extra noise getting in the way of actual learning.
9 Comments
Parents need to be involve in their children's education. Parents want their children to learn academics not social and emotional learning.
I totally agree with this petition. Public schools have declined horribly since the 1970s despite skyrocketing costs. It has become controlled by a bureaucracy with little or no control by local parents or taxpayers. Private school choice with public funding is the answer. Let parents chose where and how to educate their children not school boards dominated by public school bureaucrats.
I hope our state board of education takes a long hard look at the proposal before signing off.
Keep education local.
Teacher here... please stop ESSA!
The Federal Government needs to stay out of our State, and Local governments. If we can't afford it we should not have it , period
NH State Rep, lelected ocal school board member
Let NH lead. The feds don't know our people and culture.
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Parents need to be involve in their children's education. Parents want their children to learn academics not social and emotional learning.