Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 5, is election day for Windham Southeast School District School Board members from Brattleboro, Guilford, Dummerston, and Putney. There have been candidate profiles in both The Commons and the Reformer. It is important to be fully informed. There are a multitude of issue that the present board has been involved with and that they will continue to be addressing.
I fully recommend and will be voting for Kelly Young from Guilford and Tim Maciel from Brattleboro. They both have been amazing board members throughout their terms.
Kelly and Tim have worked diligently overtime to improve our already-good schools, by listening to students, staff, and administrators. They recently have brought students' voices to the board in a multitude of ways, including student polls, working with active student groups, and having two nonvoting, but listened-to, student members on the board.
Tim, who at present sits on the Student Advisory Panel, has been involved in education his entire life. He loves working with students and would like to continue the board's work addressing students' proficiency scores, especially in reading and math. He would like to continue to work to ensure all our students are doing well academically, socially, and emotionally.
Kelly, the chair, is a very strong proponent of education. Her mother was a math teacher with the Adult Education program, helping people get their GEDs. Kelly grew up seeing what the impact of not having a good education did to a person's life, compared to those students who were educated. She knows how important having a good foundation in education can influence their lives in so many ways.
Jody Normandeau
Dummerston
This letter to the editor was submitted to The Commons.