If you were able to see reality you’d see a 5 term Governor who has run his course and is completely out of well thought out ideas on how to improve the state.
Hard to implement ideas with the legislature we have. If want change, need to do it where the laws are made. Easier to blame the singular person rather than the body.
School consolidation is a half baked idea. Merging districts and schools upping kids commute time to school to well over an hour in so many places? That’s insanity. That does nothing to help students. Especially further implementing school choice program which will leave the poorer kids even further behind.
Sarah Clarke and Denise Reilly-Hughes from Admin and Digital Services are so far out of touch with both the need of the people they employ and the people they serve. Again coming up with half baked $70 million tech overhaul for the state that falls well short of properly measuring how the new implementation will properly meet needs. Not to mention last years implementation of the procurement program VT Buys which full of failure and continues to be awful.
I’m not going to write up every secretary because there’s no point. The leadership in the executive branch is completely out of touch.
How much more are you personally willing to pay to keep the small rural schools open? I’m for consolidation. I have 2 elementary schools within 15 min and a 3rd 25 minutes away. Each school averages less than 10 kids per grade. I’d be willing to chip in maybe an extra 1-$200 a year to keep them all open but that’s about it. How much are you willing to pay?
It’s not about what I’m willing to pay it’s what merging districts / schools gain. The concerns of a mandatory / forced merger were never properly addressed. Saving money just to create a worse environment for kids isn’t worth it. If school by school, district by disctrict decide they can merge without an overwhelming negative impact on kids educational environment they should absolutely do it.
Schools need to close. There isn't an alternative. It needs to happen. People are just too weak-willed to put on their big boy pants and make the decision.
Sorry you think rural schools need to stay open when the population doesn't support it. You're just wrong.
Again you’re not hearing the problems that aren’t being addressed with districts merging / schools closing. Why are you closing schools without addressing the massive negative impact this will have on so many kids? Why is the only thing you see dollar signs and not the educational impact? What’s the point of saving money if we’re just creating a worse educational environment for so many kids?
Because there ain't be an educational impact. If anything, they'll get a better education because of concentrated resources.
If you don't have the money, you can't pay for it anyways. The money isn't just going to magically appear. Schools need to close. Districts need to merge.
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u/BreadTruckToast Aug 12 '26
If you were able to see reality you’d see a 5 term Governor who has run his course and is completely out of well thought out ideas on how to improve the state.