Twenty-four hours later and the paper is running a front page photograph of the events at MRHS yesterday, and now the question becomes simpler:
Where do we go from here?
I’ve had a little time to think and a little time to reflect, and at the risk of seeming soft, I’m not sure if I can [...]
So I was just interviewed by Channel News 9. I wonder:
1. How much will actually make it on the air.
2. If any of it will actually make any difference.
Should be fun finding out.
In the meantime, I was forwarded a few photographs from today’s protest by the kids. Of course, I’m sure there are going to [...]
I’m not even sure where to start.
I could quote the volumes of email I received from previous students, family, friends, and the rest on their reaction to the vote:
Anyways, I thought I would drop you a sympathetic email regarding the BS outcome of the vote. It is a sad time when people feel that [...]
If I knew what the movie was, figuring out my part would be much easier.
Yesterday’s vote to not approve the budget or the contract has today left me wondering where to go from here. I am pulled so many ways, not sure who or what to be in a situation that I no longer [...]
Busy day, and not just for me. Aside from the start of new classes, it was also three days before the high school musical—The Sound of Music and the first of two dress rehearsals. As usual, the kids are running as fast as they can to get all that they need to done, as well [...]
Documentation week again, which is always fun. I like having the chance to talk to my kids about their learning, and more importantly, I like having the chance to see their parents react to their child. Parents deserve to see what’s going on with their children.
What was new and different about this week was my [...]
Mike Hoefer on Kids First Monadnock! posted a brilliant breakdown of how much taxes are really changing—or more truthfully, how much they’re not. Read it here.
It does an even better down of breaking down costs than I did here. Now all we need are people to read it.
It’s been a busy week. Aside from directing and producing a play, there was also all the fun in the newspaper this week. The fun thing about a budget is it brings the best and worst out in everyone—and manages to really show what people are inside.
In case you blinked, the NH Attorney General was [...]
February is a rough month in education. It’s a rough month in New Hampshire—there’s something about the months following the holidays when there’s nothing but cold and chill that makes it exceptionally hard to be inside a school. Heck, sometimes, when all there is to look forward to is spring, it’s hard to be in [...]
I had the chance to talk to the maintenance folks who dropped by in order to plow the driveway after Wednesday’s storm. They were much later than expected, since they spent the first half of the day running around MRHS plugging holes in the ceiling. According to them, there were over thirty leaks.
One of [...]
Kids First Monadnock directly took on the front page claim of the Monadnock Taxpayer’s Association not too terribly long ago—namely that school budgets have doubled in the last 10 years.
It’s an interesting read. It says a great deal about the way things happen in this district—the half truths and deceptions which are thrown around [...]
So education change is hopping in New Hampshire—and the Monadnock Region is right in the middle of it.
I find it amusing Monadnock Community Connections can be so reviled by many in the district and yet be such an important part of educational reform in the state.
Says something about what they know—and a great deal [...]
I called a real estate agent last week. My wife and I have lived in an apartment since my first year out of college, and by my count, we’ve spent about $43,000 in rent.
I’m getting just a little bit tired of flushing cash down the drain.
So I called an agent and looked to schedule [...]
For the results of today’s Deliberative session, Kids First Monadnock has it up. They also have some more details of the situation in Sullivan.
Also, the MC2 Public Achievement team has the video up of Mr. Moriarty’s hearing on January 9. Watching the whole thing is a wonderful display of how it’s possible for people to [...]
I love inconsistencies and logical fallacies. Good thing too, since it seems to be the norm in education politics.
I’m referring to the town of Sullivan lawsuit, which is starting to make it to the pages of the Sentinel. In this case, it was the report that the Hoffman’s lawsuit was moving ahead, and the news [...]
The newspaper today ran a front page story about MC2’s efforts to share what’s going on in the district. It’s worth reprinting:
Although many of them won’t have voices in the Monadnock Regional School District elections in March, a group of students at Monadnock Community Connections School is working to help inform district voters before they [...]
Some day, I’m sure, I’ll have the time to mention something other than district finances. But until that day comes…
Maybe I can get the school board to approve a clothing allowance.
Mr. Neil Moriarty’s lawsuit against the district pretty much went nowhere. From what I understand, the judge was faintly amused about what the big deal [...]
A friend of mine pointed out to me not long ago that it seems like there’s been a shift in the focus in the writing. From a blog intended to discuss education in general, it’s become a place which is usually covering the news in the district.
Some of this is fine. School funding is spelled [...]
“Point of order. As the December 11 meeting was not a duly called budget committee meeting, I am still the elected chair of the budget committee.”
Wow, what a way to start. There were a few minutes of discussion, where Mr. Ells argued that since a court will answer the question, right now the meeting should [...]
Okay, so I’m no Nostradamus, but my theory that it wouldn’t be long before Mr. Cornelius Moriarty launched a lawsuit against the district was dead-on accurate.
Mr. Moriarty, having found himself no longer the chair of the budget committee, prompty launched a lawsuit against the school district, the superintendent Dr. Dassau, the school board chair Ms. [...]
