You may recall my promising to introduce speakers at SCGOP meetings with an advance blog post on our website, and email to promote such occasion.

Please welcome Jody Underwood of Education Options (EdOpt) to speak at our April meeting. Consider browsing the website in advance:  https://edopt.org.  Note that  your SCGOP Treasurer and Vice Chair are active in EdOpt. The entire EdOpt team is described therein.

The EdOpt mission is to provide information, support, and connections to families who want to explore education options. To do this, we hold expos in different regions around the state, connect people to the resources that will help them, and support families in their efforts to educate their children.

The two pillars of this approach are that parents bear the responsibility of educating their children. Likewise, parents bear the cost of educating their children. NH resources are limited. This is no different than shopping for groceries.

Given:

•  the 30 plus year history of reputational drag imposed on Claremont by the former executive councilor Volinsky through various legalist shenanigans;
  
• the recent school board election which closely defeated our candidate;
  
• the recent chaos at a the last school board policy review meeting, revealing a 9 year old optional trans gender policy;
  
• the dire tax impact of Claremont’s SAU costs on raising a family in Claremont;
  
• the budgetary impact of both state and federal funding and policy reform.

With these constraints, dramatic improvement in education funding and delivery is on offer. Freedom in education is finally going in the right direction.

Overpriced underperforming education and its property tax consequences cross political boundaries. This is the NH hill to die on.

Jody has been invited to explain the new territory of education options available to parents and kids.

Your SCGOP team welcomes this presentation and hopes to use it as a springboard to greater public understanding of critical issues, tax consequences, and organizational growth into developing and running candidates for local positions. This is our mission.

Please invite motivated parents and education entrepreneurs. Sullivan County has been ground zero for poor education policy. We reap the tax and social consequences of those poor decisions. The time for change is ripe.

—Tom Luther

This blog post contributed by Tom Luther