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Speak Up! - Guests Ann Marie Banfield & Doris Hohensee on Common Core

Common Core is now a part of your children's curriculum. Here is information that may interest you and why many are alarmed on how Common Core was introduced to our State and what it means to education choice and local control

Doris Hohensee :

Resolution Protecting Local Governance of Public Education: 



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A petition for remedy from interference into the local governance of public schools.


We, the undersigned people of the cities and towns of New Hampshire have the same inherent rights that were enjoyed 229 years ago when the NH Constitution was first secured, enumerating the rights of our families and our posterity.

Local governance of public education is our birthright. Parents have the right to direct the education of their children. Through the creation of local school districts the people have the right to elect their own public teachers and contract with them without interference.

Article 6 of New Hampshire's Bill of Rights secures for all times the right to local governance of our public schools. The people have the right to create and organize public schools and school districts as they see fit to create without interference or intrusive regulation.

The people once enjoyed over 2,600 school districts in New Hampshire. 150 years ago parents were not compelled to remain within a school district when they disagreed with the educational goals of a particular district. Peace and tranquility prevailed because people were not forced to submit to practices, which offended their conscience.

The people, therefore, demand the acknowledgment of our right to local governance of our schools, and do hereby further demand that the General Court insure that the laws of this state reflect the true nature of these inherent rights and the liberty to organize school districts within our communities as we see fit to create.

In support of these demands, please take notice of the following Articles of the New Hampshire Bill of Rights. :


Article 1 - We withdraw our consent to have our children take part in any educational system not established and governed locally.

Article 2 - We have the natural, essential and inherent right as parents to defend our children by directing their education during their formative years in order to provide them with the best possible instruction so that they may more easily enjoy life and obtain happiness.

Article 3 - It is the duty of this General Court to protect our rights to provide for our children such an education as described herein, the failure of which results in the rendering void of all we have surrendered for the establishment of this state.

Article 4 - Whereas the government can provide us with no equivalent, our rights as demanded herein are inherently unalienable. Equally unalienable is our right to a clear conscience, which we will only regain once our right to freely educate our children is no longer infringed upon by mandates, such as Common CORE.

Article 6 - We the people, the creators of government, demand a restoration of our rights to create and govern our public schools within our communities, and to elect our teachers and to make adequate provision for their support.

Article 7 - As a free, sovereign and independent people, we have the sole and exclusive right of self-governance which includes the establishment of local public schools and the right to govern those districts within our communities.

Article 8 - We agree that all the power delegated to the General Court originates in and is derived from the people.

Article 10 - The time has come when the educational "ends of government are perverted, and the public liberty manifestly endangered and all other means of redress are ineffectual" and thus we, "the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new" educational system. "The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."

Article 12 - We agree with the precept that "no part of a man’s property shall be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent ..." and we further agree that the people of this state shall not be "controllable by any other laws than those to which they, or their representative body, have given their consent. " It is for this reason that we withdraw our consent and demand a restoration of our right to support a public school districts to which we consent.

For the reasons enumerated above, we the people have, to protect our children through their formative years, by restoring local governance of public education.

Watch Ann Marie Banfield & Doris Hohensee talk about Common Core  Here

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