{"id":10295,"date":"2026-08-18T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:33:19","slug":"souhegan-sau-39-used-students-for-political-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2026\/08\/18\/souhegan-sau-39-used-students-for-political-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Souhegan SAU 39 Used Students for Political Purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2005\/02\/28\/souhegan-sau-39-compelled-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNHT called out the Amherst  NH school department<\/a> (Souhegan SAU 39) for using parents&#8217; emails to electioneer by sending them political messages. We object to our children being used as political mules.<\/p>\n<p>It happened again in December of 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_compelled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_compelled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_compelled.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_compelled-480x621.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 791px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_compelled2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_compelled2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_compelled2.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/am_compelled2-480x621.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 791px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005 CNHT called out the Amherst NH school department (Souhegan SAU 39) for using parents&#8217; emails to electioneer by sending them political messages. We object to our children being used as political mules. It happened again in December of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compelled-speech","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10301,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions\/10301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}