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NEWS – WITHOUT THE LIBERAL SPIN
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New Hampshire House Speaker Congratulates Representative-elect Jodi Nelson Concord, NH: House Speaker Sherman Packard (R-Londonderry) issued the following statement following Representative-elect Jodi Nelson’s (R-Derry) win for Rockingham County District Read More…
FROM OUR PRINTED AUGUST 1, 2020 EDITION by Mark Alliegro Candidate for State Representative I am a candidate for the State House to represent Grafton County District 7 (Campton) in Read More…
Anti-education movements are not new.
Here’s an excerpt from a 1937 book about the establishment of the prairie States
“They Broke the Prairie” by Earnest Elmo Calkins
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“School books were written and edited with this thought in mind,
that it was unthinkable that you should suspect its country was
ever wrong, or any country that opposed it ever right, or that the
men who founded it were anything but grand and noble — in short
demigods. Nothing was further from the minds of patriotic beadles
and churchwardens in the good old days that children were sent to
school to learn the truth about anything, least of all history.
Even today there are sharp outcomes against liberalizing the school
books to approximate at least something like the truth.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnest_Elmo_Calkins
https://www.amazon.com/They-Broke-Prairie-State-Books/dp/0252060946
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/letter-lets-stop-teaching-students-172815869.html