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Also a place where conversation happens – from Letters to the Editor and Op/Eds to The Soapbox, you’re welcome to tell us how you really feel.

Uncertainty and fear: Educators Week looks a lot different than years before

read more…: Uncertainty and fear: Educators Week looks a lot different than years before

What our teachers desperately need right now are leaders in charge who understand the challenges they face. They need leaders who listen to our health experts as an unprecedented pandemic continues to claim lives. They deserve leaders who put their safety and their students’ safety first. 

Teachers are scared, and here’s why

read more…: Teachers are scared, and here’s why

I have a lot of questions about the nature of the vitriolic language that has been used to describe teachers who are asking valid and hard questions about the safety of our schools. The first and most important is this: Do we realize that everything that makes our schools extraordinary are our teachers? When we shame them, we shame our schools, and when we shame our schools, we shame our children. 

Let’s keep the conversation going to make remote learning equitable for kids with disabilities

read more…: Let’s keep the conversation going to make remote learning equitable for kids with disabilities

When schools moved to remote learning in March, children impacted by disability faced difficult challenges due to the sudden change in schedule and loss of familiar routines and therapies. This triggered regression in behavior and loss of language and motor skills, so for those families to be able to use their experiences to ask direct questions and have them answered by school officials was a great benefit.

The guilty pleasure of ‘Daisy Clover’

read more…: The guilty pleasure of ‘Daisy Clover’

Often associated with a “Valley of The Dolls”-type of quality, the Warner Brothers 1965 film “Inside Daisy Clover,” generally receives a somewhat worthy bad rap for it’s inflated acting and overall camp.  It “is” a bit overacted, it “is” a bit campy, it could even teeter on cult-ish. However, once you’ve come to that acceptance, then Daisy doesn’t hurt so much.

The Story of a Pug Named Buster

read more…: The Story of a Pug Named Buster

I looked at the dog, and the dog looked back at me with these droopy, watery eyes. Listen, I’m not a complete curmudgeon — of course he was cute. Puppies are cute. But it was beside the point that my wishes had been blatantly ignored, and now this tiny pug would live in my house and undermine my authority.

Enough is Enough with being out of touch

read more…: Enough is Enough with being out of touch

I don’t know Benjamin Horton or his intentions in writing his opinion piece [Enough is Enough for downtown Manchester July 23, 2020]. For all I know he had a similar upbringing to mine although I doubt that if he feels like walking in downtown Manchester is like “walking in a war zone.” What I do know is that none of what he recommends would actually solve any of the problems he described.

Raise the minimum wage: NH workers are tired of getting left behind

read more…: Raise the minimum wage: NH workers are tired of getting left behind

New Hampshire has been without a minimum wage statute since 2011 and defaults to the federal minimum wage. If Governor Sununu fails to sign the bill, New Hampshire will find itself falling even farther behind our neighboring New England states. As of January 1, 2021, the minimum wage in Connecticut will be $12, in Vermont $11.75, in Massachusetts $13.50, in Rhode Island $11.50, in Maine $12 plus a CPI increase, and in New Hampshire a pitiful $7.25.

Consider the bookies

read more…: Consider the bookies

And here comes another stunner. I was far from the only person placing illegal bets in The Queen City. From my observations, it seemed many of the denizens of good ole’ Manch-Vegas share a hankering for sports gambling.

My brief, imaginary brush with COVID-19, or, get tested; sure it sucks, but well worth it

read more…: My brief, imaginary brush with COVID-19, or, get tested; sure it sucks, but well worth it

The city of Manchester sent an email out to everyone who attended one of the high school graduations at Fisher Cat Stadium, suggesting we all get tested for COVID. I was at the stadium with about a thousand others, give or take, watching our kids walk the plank into mini-adulthood.  But, the city suggested we all get tested and it was FREE so, what the hell, you’re speaking my language.  I bit.

Guidance from Sununu and Edelblut leaves schools to fend for themselves   

read more…: Guidance from Sununu and Edelblut leaves schools to fend for themselves   

As a lifelong Manchester resident and educator with over 30 years of experience teaching and serving in administrative roles at the New Hampshire Department of Education and Southern New Hampshire University, I am deeply concerned with the guidance Governor Sununu issued on Tuesday which I believe will not be enough to keep our students and teachers safe from COVID-19 if they go back to school. 

Edelblut: We’ve Come a Long Way

read more…: Edelblut: We’ve Come a Long Way

On January 29, 2020, long before the public was aware of COVID-19, the Department of Education provided its first Health Alert to school leaders about a developing health concern. Of course, at that time, we could not have known the devastating effects of COVID, but school systems always need to be prepared, even for a bad flu season.

Solving homelessness a statewide conversation that requires direct services, permanent housing

read more…: Solving homelessness a statewide conversation that requires direct services, permanent housing

When I took the role as the new President of Families in Transition-New Horizons (FIT-NH) just over one month ago, I made a commitment to foster the care for basic needs of people in this area. This has been and will remain a joint effort in our community, it is the only way to succeed. We continue to stand with the Mayor and city leaders, emergency responders, law enforcement, non-profits and state leaders of all backgrounds to ensure we resume the work of this mission within the confines of the COVID response around New Hampshire.

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