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Northwood NH News

May 18, 2011

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The CBNA class of 2011 has forty members who will be graduating with Highest Honors with GPAs of 93 or above, and sixty honor graduates with GPAs between 92 and 85. Congratulations to all.

 


 

The Northwood Farmers Market is open for the season!  Please plan to stop by on Thursday afternoons between 3 and 6:30 to see what’s new, what’s familiar, and watch our blog at http://northwoodfarmersmarket.blogspot.com/ or our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Northwood-Farmers-Market/160824287285 for upcoming events.  See you at the market!



 

Letter


As most of us are realizing, our legislature has taken up a lot of unusual bills this year.  I was interested in seeing how Rockingham 1’s State Representatives voted on some of these bills, so I looked them up, and this is what I found.


HB474 concerns a law about unions.  Currently, in NH, no one has to join a union or pay dues.  But if there is a union where you work, you get the benefits they have negotiated anyway, for which you pay an agency fee to cover the costs of negotiating the contract that you benefit from. 


This bill says you no longer have to pay anything to get those contract benefits. Bye-bye, unions. It’s called right to work, but it is really right to work for less. States that have these sort of laws have lower wages and more on-the-job injuries and deaths.  Duarte, Reagan, Sullivan and Tasker voted for this bill, Case voted against.


HB156 lowers the cigarette tax by $0.10 per pack.  It’s supposed to lure people to buy their cigarettes in NH and increase revenues due to volume, but it doesn’t seem likely that enough people will spend money for gas to drive very far for that dime. It will lower our already low state revenues and increase the budget deficit, and might encourage some to smoke more.  Duarte, Reagan, Sullivan and Tasker voted for the decrease, Case voted against.


HB429 lowers the drop out age to 16.  When NH, at the urging of Governor Lynch, raised the age to 18, the drop out rate dropped by a third.  Staying in school means greater earning power during our working years.  Duarte, Reagan, Sullivan and Tasker voted for, Case voted against.


Just wondering where the good jobs are.


Lucy Edwards
Northwood

 


 

CBNA Chorus Wins Big At Music In The Parks Festival

The CBNA Chorus holds trophies won at recent Music in the Parks Festival at Six Flags New England


The Coe-Brown Northwood Academy Chorus, under the direction of David Deardorff, participated in the Music in the Parks Festival competition at Six Flags New England on Saturday, May 7, 2011.  It was a fantastic day of music and fun.  The Chorus left school at 5:30 am, and returned at 12:30 am on Sunday morning, tired but happy. 


Coe-Brown was entered into four divisions of the festival, two Mixed Choruses (one of which was for the CBNA Select Chorus), Men’s Choir and Show Choir.  The Coe-Brown Chorus made a clean sweep of the competition, placing first in each category and winning the biggest trophy of the day for the “Best Overall High School Choir” of the festival.   Receiving awards for outstanding individual music excellence were Sophie Shiere for “Outstanding Piano Accompanist” and Rayce Calef for “Outstanding Vocalist.”  Congratulations to all of these fine musicians.

 


 

Letter To The Editor


Guilty!  Several years ago at our Annual School District Meeting, contentious as usual, a lady I did not know went to the mike and said that she was sick and tired of hearing that Northwood School was not adequately educating our students. She stated that it was not so. Many of you clapped. I went home with the feeling that there is just no hope and I shut up. Well, the grim reaper is here and if any of you poorly educated Northwood School students want to have a face to blame, I am guilty.  I let you down, as have many others.


There is not any good news.  The latest results from the NECAP test tell a very dismal story. Just talking math; from the 09/10 year to the 10/11 year grades 4, 6, and 7 showed no improvement. Grades 3, 5, and 8 went downhill.


So, what does that mean? It means that despite all efforts like new curriculum, tutors, specialists and more, only 62% of our students are proficient in math. 


Despite the fact that they spent over $2,500 less per student, 90% of Strafford students are proficient in math. Clearly, that is unacceptable, it is not the SAU, and whatever we are doing, it is not working. While  NH is raising the bar each year, and the average score in NH is going up, we continue to slide. Reading and writing are no better.


This time, I am not shutting up.  Despite Mr. Overmyer’s rudeness in trying to strictly time me, despite his getting Robbie to shut down the discussion on withdrawing from the SAU, and even though it is a running joke within the School Board that he wants to adjourn asap, I’m not laughing and I’m not going to shut up this time. Why the failure? I’m looking in the mirror.  The School Board should also.


Tim Jandebeur
Northwood

 


 


 

 











 
 

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