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The voters' choice is always ours, at least for now.
Simple math: Dummerston, Putney, Guilford, and Vernon have 100-percent direct voter participation in their schools, done by electing school board members and/or casting a ballot at Town Meeting.
Changing school governance to a super board under Act 46 gives each of these towns one member per outlying town (Brattleboro has more) to a board of eight or so.
The outlying towns would then have less than a 15-percent say in a general pool and not even a 15-percent say about the direction of their own representative schools.
Democracy in Vermont is dead. From the early days of one-room schoolhouses to the present, town residents and taxpayers have been directly involved in their students' education. Act 46 takes this role away from us. The Dummerston community has built and paid for its school building and grounds. All...
