Vermont had the highest percent increase of drug overdose deaths from March 2021 to March 2021, 85.1%, according the most recent Center for Disease Control data available. Overdose deaths increased from 114 to 211.
Instead of lowering expectations for students through measures like eliminating “F” grades, states and local school districts should pursue policies that enable students to select into learning environments that meet their unique needs.
No child of any age should be forced by law to enter an environment where they do not feel safe — and apparently are not safe — on a daily basis, with no alternative unless their parents are wealthy enough to buy their way out of the system.
The question going forward for urban blacks, Vermont welfare recipients and COVID fund recipients alike is, how may government benefit those in need without hurting them and those around them.
I’ve been saying “vaccines should be mandated.” That phrase, I’m afraid, helps cause resistance to vaccination. What I should have been saying is that vaccines should be required in many cases.
“I’m challenged to agree with your assessment of this way of determining sustainability, because we may have thought we were buying a $200,000 house and may in fact be that we are buying an $800,000 house or a $1 million house,” Rep. Sarah Copeland Hanzas said.
There is one helpful solution: Parents of students unhappy with radical curricula infused into their children don’t go to college board meetings to complain. They pull their kids out and send them to colleges that share their values and their hopes for the children’s future lives and careers.
Leftist activists want parents classified as domestic terrorists because parents and grandparents do not want their children’s schools to become America-hating camps. Parents have both a right and responsibility to protect their children from bad actors.
Liberating every African American slave in the south wasn’t good enough. Pardoning 264 Sioux warriors wasn’t good enough. To be honored by the woke mob, and to be left to rest in peace, they are demanding that Lincoln literally pardon murderers and rapists.
Don was duly elected by the voters of Rutland Town, the same as every other board member past or present. It should be incumbent upon this board to find a way to redo the committee placements to include reinstating Don Chioffi.
The school leadership boasts that they are implementing a “radical change” in the way students are taught. But never mind, it is not “explicit.” This is deliberate misinformation by the school board.
Fifty-six years later it is Vermont citizens who cry from frustration and anger over how the Legislature apportions itself using multimember districts. This method cheats Vermont citizens in two major ways.