School Board Race
Incumbent Steve Elgert was defeated by tax-fighter Tom Keane by a 54-46 despite the huge amount of money to keep the incumbent in office.
Budget Committee
Fellow tax-fighter Cindy Martin held her seat.
School Board Race
Incumbent Steve Elgert was defeated by tax-fighter Tom Keane by a 54-46 despite the huge amount of money to keep the incumbent in office.
Budget Committee
Fellow tax-fighter Cindy Martin held her seat.
congratulations Tom Keane! He had the largest uphil battle to fight, and he came through handsomly. And against a very strong (money machine) opposition!
I look forward to your updates on the school board’s goings on.
Does anyone know if the Judd/Crisp/Kennison/Burns/Walz/Bloomfield/others have a political group they contribute money and support to?
You can find that information here:
Open Secrets
“Fellow tax-fighter Cindy Martin held her seat.”
Paraphrase one of Cindy’s statements at Town Meeting as to why voters should not vote for an increase in the library’s budget to expand their collection: There are already a lot of books in the library – people should read those.
Maybe she should hold on to her seat and avoid standing in front of a microphone.
Taxed out and Teacher, did you find out anything? I couldn’t figure out the open secret website.
Taxedout it is interesting you include Burns. Are you refering to Katie Burns the extreme liberal in the Concord Monitor?
Yes, Katie Burns who uses the Communist Monitor for her pulpit.
If they did not donate to a candidate you won’t find anything there.
Libraries are a thing of the past and no town should waste any more money on them….. there is no need for them now that we have the internet.
Teacher said: “Libraries are a thing of the past and no town should waste any more money on them….. there is no need for them now that we have the internet.”
That has to be one of the most un-educated arguments I’ve ever read. That along with Ms. Martin’s “there are already plenty of books in the library” argument.
Teacher, you of all people should recognize the value of a library. That is you were a former educator were you not? Libraries provide the utmost ability to do research and provide for those who do not have the funds to access the internet from the comfort of their own homes.
As a college student, the library was my second home. Now that I have long since graduated, it still provides me with wonderful resources, for research that I continue to do in my spare time.
I detest wikipedia and most here should plainly see why. But, if that is how you think our youth should learn, so be it. I for one will support the library as long as I can.
Well first of all, it is far cheaper to buy internet services which can replace phone books, phones, and libraries among the many things… than it is to pay higher taxes to keep a building going, not to mention the upkeep of books and the pay for staff.
And I did not recommend wikipedia which is a slanted biased source of information who can delete things contributed on a whim.
However, many books have been translated to electronic format and can be either heard on audio or read online. Plus you sure can do 100X the research that you can do lugging heavy books and it’s handicap accessible.
I still say libraries are no longer useful as they once were.
Teacher says: “I still say libraries are no longer useful as they once were.”
Perhaps you would like to go a step further and advocate burning their contents?
In some cases, the powers that control our schools from far outside this country have placed very questionable books in our libraries that young eyes should not have to be subjected to.
I have had first graders come to me in tears because they were so disturbed to have discovered such books. I simply turned them into the main office.
That is, I turned the BOOKS in to the main office, not the students.
Teacher said, “In some cases, the powers that control our schools from far outside this country have placed very questionable books in our libraries that young eyes should not have to be subjected to.”
Can anybody explain what this person is talking about? So are folks in the Kremlin stocking the library shelves now? Is Osama bin Laden making up our students’ reading lists? Or, God forbid, is it our worst nightmare, the French?
You’re close. But I urge you to do a little more research on this website and elsewhere to get up to speed.
Dear Teacher: Can you answer the simple question: who are “the powers that control our schools from far outside this country”? I am quoting you. It is a straightforward question. Please be kind enough to respond. Thank you.
It’s despicable what they are teaching our kids in the schools even without this program from UNESCO. And I speak from experience and years of research on the subject.
It’s nothing more than a place to teach global socialism under the corporations’ dream of total control. Turning them into community organizers is the key. How to redistribute the wealth across the nations from big bad America..
http://tinyurl.com/worldgovernmentiswrong
No one can ever define just what are ‘global standards’ a term they use to dazzle and confuse the parents, but it’s clear from this article that the whole thing has a political agenda and these ’standards’ are not academic… even without this program which Bow managed thankfully to avoid, under Goals 2000 all of this stuff was instituted.
The TOK program is questionable. Leave it to the UN to figure out a way to brainwash your kids while having taxpayers pay for it through the nose.
Here is a quote from the teachers union in 1946, 1946!!!!!
“In the struggle to establish an adequate world government, the teacher has many parts to play… He can do much to prepare the hearts and minds of children for global understanding and cooperation… At the very top of all the agencies which will assure the coming of world government must stand the school, the teacher, and the organized profession.”
– National Education Association Journal, 1946
Teacher: Thank you for your interesting take on the dire situation in our schools. I trust that Tom Keane shares your concerns and will work hard to stop, or at least slow, the spread of global socialism and training of community organizers in the Bow schools.
Your last post is even more interesting when combined with your earlier comment on May 18: “Libraries are a thing of the past and no town should waste any more money on them….. there is no need for them now that we have the internet.”
I wonder if eliminating the town library and the school libraries can also help in the battle against the forces of which you speak.
I hope Mr. Keane will enlighten us as to his views on these subjects.
I have NO idea what Tom Keane or anyone thinks about my experiences in the public schools or the fact that I believe this is happening all over the country. I do not work in the Bow schools so I can only warn about it, on the suspicion that there has to be some element of it there too. After all this money has to be going somewhere… and consultants who promote this stuff are getting a big chunk.
Tom Keane is NOT the subject of my post which was a response to your question, so please stop trying to attribute my statements and beliefs to him.
Best to leave that to those who ascribe to the Saul Alinsky method of personal attacks and guilt by association.
You can attack me all you want and I will respond to you honestly about how and why I feel the way I do, but for you to try to connect Mr. Keane to what my beliefs are is the predictable next step that I am sure everyone here will see right through.
Furthermore Greengrass, I urge you to read this book by this foremost expert:
http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/pages/author.htm
Notice what is says in her bio?
She wrote the booklet “Soviets in the Classroom: America’s Latest Education Fad” which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day.