Spreuken over Onderwijs

Mandatory hunter education is really having an impact.

Most importantly, it will see (isolated pupils) getting access to the same quality of education as children in metropolitan areas.

The federally mandated rate from the United States Department of Education uses a simple and simplistic measure. It neglects transfer rates, among other things. In urban universities, the transfer rate can be more than 50 percent. With urban students, there are economic considerations, family reasons. With this method, you get a much more accurate picture.

In New Hampshire we still fund education locally. That is one of the reasons we have had historically such a strong school system.

One of the functions the Society has and will develop further this year is educating residents as to the history of the community and the families that founded what was originally called Franklin Township. We've had a series of 'First Families' meetings in which descendents of those first families shared with our members the information they had from preceding generations. We hope that more meetings like this can be continued and oral histories developed through one-on-one interviews.