[Publius]

Time for a chat with the school board.

[Newbomb Turk]

Press denied access to a school paid for by the taxpayer. Assisted by the Police force again paid for by the taxpayer. Time for heads to roll !

[AMNZ]

America's Public Schools = An abyss into which our money is dumped and our kids minds are skewed.

[grobdriver]

Lawson told Eagle News reporter Jim Kelly that the press would be barred from school grounds because he, "...didn't want any trouble."

Well, you got trouble now, fella.

[elbucko]

Don't expect the ACLU, the NYT or the LAT to file a 1st. amendment action against this school and its faculty. They're all in agreement, so there is no 1st. amendment issue here, perception being in the eye of the beholder.

The deeper issue is the school board and the school staff. How an American community can vote for a school board that permits indoctrination and propaganda on school grounds is beyond me. Perhaps the voters went to the same schools.

[SwinusMaximus]

My kid brother was smack dab in the middle of this one. See the original FR thread here: Click Here

[dighton]

Middlebury Union High School

[JimVT]

And these Education "leaders" wonder why Vermonters are telling them to stuff their budgets. See below:

Seven school budgets fail at the polls

March 6, 2003 By

ANDY KIRKALDY

ADDISON COUNTY - Residents of Addison County and Brandon defeated seven proposed school budgets on Tuesday, including plans proposed for Vergennes and Otter Valley union high schools and for five elementary schools. School officials said there is no mystery to the setbacks, despite what they called reasonable budget proposals - property taxes are rising more quickly than school spending, and the economy is struggling. "You have people with a lesser ability to pay," said Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union Superintendent Bill Mathis, "while the increase in their property values asks them to pay more."

The proposed $6.65 million VUHS budget lost, 986-777, or 56 percent to 44 percent. It would have increased spending by 4.7 percent. The roughly $8 million OVUHS budget failed, 950-889, or 52 percent to 48 percent. It would have increased spending by 4.6 percent.

Also defeated were:

· A$3.97 million budget for the Neshobe Elementary School that would have raised current spending by 0.3 percent. It lost in Brandon, 442-363.

· A $3 million Vergennes Union Elementary School budget that would have hiked spending by 4 percent. It lost in Vergennes, Panton and Waltham, 404-361.

· A $1.25 million Bridport Central School plan that would have raised spending by 5.28 percent. It lost, 147-131.

· A $1.4 million Shoreham Elementary School budget that would have increased by 7.4 percent. It lost, 173-156.

· A Leicester Central School proposal for about $981,000 that would have raised spending by 7.7 percent. It lost, 174-134.

TAX RATES JUMP

Estimated tax rates in some of the communities rose much quicker than proposed spending, according to local school officials' calculations.

Assuming all budgets had passed, that grand list increases were similar to those of a year ago, and that legislators meet their commitments to fund Act 60, local school officials estimated the following tax rate increases:

· In Vergennes, 45 cents, or $450 more taxes on a home assessed at $100,000 if its owners were not eligible for Act 60 tax relief.

· In Shoreham, 41 cents, or a $410 increase on a $100,000 home.

· In Ferrisburgh, 38 cents, or a $380 increase on a $100,000 home.

· In Leicester, 29 cents, or a $290 increase on a $100,000 home.

· In Addison, 15 cents, or a $150 increase on a $100,000 home.

· In Brandon, 12 cents, or a $120 increase on a $100,000 home.

Bridport was an exception, with an expected 63-cent drop in the town's school tax rate. Addison Northwest Superintendent Tom O'Brien said property-value issues lay behind the rising taxes and budget defeats. "I think it was a referendum on the property tax increase as a result of the CLAs (common levels of appraisals)," said O'Brien. "All of the boards worked diligently to make budget proposals that were fair."

[headsonpikes]

The Public Schools are Weapons of Mass Destruction.

But they're only destroying kids minds and characters, so who cares?

Wouldn't want to be judgmental.

[SpinyNorman]

And you wonder why we get politicians out of Vermont like Leahy and Jeffords? The socialists and lesbians are turning the state into a little commie hell hole.

Maybe it is time to liberate Vermont from the liberal, Saddam-loving weasels!

[cookcounty]

Time to take the gloves off on this crap.

Time to start a mailing to this community INFORMING the students and families that the teachers and staff of this school have been silent in the face of Saddam's torture, rape mutilation of the innocent and mass murder. THE TEACHERS ARE CULPABLE. If 100 freepers send 20 letters each, we can have a powerful impact on this UN- american community.

[Commander8]

Usually, the journalism class in a public High School will always include a lecture from the teacher on the public's right to know.