DUMMERSTON — 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.
Act 46 was put forth because of money, not because of kids.
Do you want to have 100-percent input in the future or less than 15-percent input about your school?
Parents of students or taxpayers both lose.