{"id":1672,"date":"2015-04-12T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T20:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2015-04-12T16:48:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T20:48:34","slug":"parental-rights-under-attack-by-nashua-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2015\/04\/12\/parental-rights-under-attack-by-nashua-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental RIGHTS Under Attack By Nashua Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Nashua teacher wants to undermine PARENTAL RIGHTS and eliminate the OPT OUT of objectionable materials in public school law. She’s working with the AFT union to ELIMINATE a law which protects parental rights. <\/p>\n

Ultimately, these decisions should come from the parents. We’ve seen enough examples where teachers and schools exchange real science instruction for political indoctrination. <\/p>\n

We encourage parents to engage their school administrators and teachers in an honest discussion on all subject material, however the decision still needs to be made by the parents. <\/p>\n

In this case, the student remained in the class but the teacher still wants to remove the rights of the parents to be the one who makes this decision. That’s WRONG.
\n<\/strong>
\nRSA 186-11 IX-c. Requires school districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception to specific course material based on a parent’s or legal guardian’s determination that the MATERIAL is OBJECTIONABLE. Such policy shall include a provision requiring the parent or legal guardian to notify the school principal or designee in writing of the specific material to which they object and a provision requiring an alternative agreed upon by the school district and the parent, at the parent’s expense, sufficient to enable the child to meet state requirements for education in the particular subject area. The name of the parent or legal guardian and ANY SPECIFIC REASONS disclosed to school officials for the objection to the material SHALL NOT BE PUBLIC INFORMATION and shall be excluded from access under RSA 91-A. <\/p>\n

Maybe it’s time for a PARENTS UNION? <\/strong>Please reach out Ms. Miller and tell her parents rights trump hers. millera@nashua.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/news\/1061171-469\/focus-on-evolution-climate-change-earn-nashua.html <\/a><\/p>\n

Focus on evolution, climate change<\/strong> earn Nashua teacher adventure trip through Grand Canyon <\/p>\n

By TINA FORBES <\/p>\n

Staff Writer <\/p>\n

NASHUA \u2013 A focus on teaching evolution helped a Nashua High School North science teacher win one of two scholarships in the country for an eight-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. <\/p>\n

Alyson Miller was awarded the scholarship by the National Center for Science Education along with a teacher in Fresno, Calif. <\/p>\n

Miller said she was motivated last year after she had a student whose parents wanted her to opt out of learning about evolution in a high school biology class. <\/p>\n

\u201cTaking out evolution is like taking the tree trunk out of a tree,\u201d Miller said. \u201cYou\u2019re just left with a pile of leaves.\u201d <\/p>\n

Although the student ultimately didn\u2019t leave her class, the policy allowing parents to opt students out of lessons they deem objectionable is state law: Chapter 186:11 IX-C. <\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe this law existed,\u201d said Miller, who said she started looking into the law. She said although it appeared to be prompted by parental objection to sex education in health class, the language allows it to be applied to any course material if parents consider it objectionable. <\/p>\n

This year, Miller secured the American Federation of Teacher-Leader grant designed to help teachers make policy changes and began working on finding a way to repeal the law. She\u2019s working with an AFT lawyer to explore how to amend the law now. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking to see if the policy has been used, how many times and if it\u2019s been used in a science classroom,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Miller connected with the NCSE while researching the opt-out policy. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe National Center for Science Education is kind of a \u2018go to\u2019 place for science leaders when you have a question on evolution or climate change,\u201d Miller said. \u201cThey were so helpful. They sent back a whole lot of information.\u201d <\/p>\n

Miller noticed a posting for the Grand Canyon scholarship. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that would be really motivating, and a win-win. If I didn\u2019t win the trip, I\u2019d have a lesson plan really finely tuned,\u201d she said, referring to the lesson plan she developed for the application. <\/p>\n

Miller has been brushing up on geology in preparation for the trip, although she said experiencing science through nature is the best lesson. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be learning about it,\u201d she said. \u201cI just really would like to bring back to my students something interesting.\u201d
\n
\nRead the rest of the article by clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Nashua teacher wants to undermine PARENTAL RIGHTS and eliminate the OPT OUT of objectionable materials in public school law. She’s working with the AFT union to ELIMINATE a law which protects parental rights. Ultimately, these decisions should come from the parents. We’ve seen enough examples where teachers and schools exchange real science instruction for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[263,147,406,143],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents","category-teachers","tag-hb542","tag-nashua","tag-parentalrights","tag-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}