DERRY — School systems could be getting more help from the state thanks to a bill filed in the state Legislature to address court rulings on educational funding.
When I was a senior at UNH and preparing to become an educator, I often announced to others: “I will never teach in New Hampshire.” Why did twenty-something me feel so strongly about this? It wasn’t because I didn’t love it here. It was because I could not imagine teaching in a place that didn’t value education.
Just one year after New Hampshire legislators first introduced a bill that banned the teaching or discussion of “divisive concepts” like systemic racism, another bill will be debated this legislative session that would take those restrictions.
The proposed bill seeks to ban public school teachers from promoting any theory that depicts U.S. history or its founding in a negative light, including the idea that the country was founded on racism.