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By virtue of having a school election, SAU-72 knows very well that their warrant articles will be scrutinized on a written election ballot. Interestingly, I believe that SAU-72 now has a warrant article on the upcoming March town election ballot to eliminate their SB-2 style of voting and return to the old style of school meeting voting. Why do they want to do that?
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I respectfully ask you to quote your source and check the date. I'm very involved with the school and town meetings. There is no such article on the Warrant. I have a copy of all the Warrant articles, as presented, at the January 12, 2010 public hearing of the school budget.
Personally, I wish they would do just that - I am no fan of SB-2 and feel it has more short-comings than long-suits. But there's NO WAY it will go away unless the voters approve it. I thought it was a good thing when it was presented - in practice, it's not that wonderful...
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The spending decisions for SAU-3 are decided by those who choose to attend the annual school district meeting, and that is certainly and most likely people who have an interest in their local school. (Read: parents of students)
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That logic can swing either way - both "the school people" and "the naysayers" can attend a meeting and vote in whichever way they prefer. The more the merrier!
Trust me when I say that there's not that many parents of students involved to this degree - I wish that was not the case. I wish more parents were involved and more should be done by the towns and schools to facilitate parent involvement - such as educating voters about absentee ballots, having the local PTA or the Nation Honor Society at the high school or whathaveyou provide free babysitting so that single parents or both parents can attend a deliberative session or town meeting, memos to parents about the deliberative sessions (both town and school) or town meeting should go home to them... and so on.
However, after having been in a situation where Argie and I both worked away from home, full-time, and had horrible commutes, with both boys in daycare, I can sympathize with the parents who just can't make it to these types of meetings - I get it.