Glen Lake in Bomoseen (unless it has changed in recent years).

The entire idea of "not propping up" places like SJA and LI are insane as most of Kixeliz's rants are she even brought your kid into it!. Actually kinda thankful she blocked me. What's the alternative then? Let SJA and LI die and spend untold millions building new high schools in the area. Not gonna happen. Where will they build them will my kids now have to spend three hours or more on the bus everyday. It's already almost 2 hrs now. Blinded by hatred seems to be a common theme these days.

It's really bad.

The area hospitals have the physical capacity to take care of patients (beds, equipment) but inadequate staffing and are unable to hire sufficient full-time staff (physicians, nurses, etc.). The common problem is lack of housing that is affordable with respect to the relevant salaries.

Many hospitals are rationing who they accept in transfer (and likely skirting EMTLA requirements) and patients are frequently boarding in hospitals where they are at or exceeding the level of care at that hospital can provide. Prior to Covid, these patients would generally be transferred in a timely manner. At this stage, many patients are receiving somewhat sub optimal care at they aren't be transferred to larger hospitals to have the appropriate specialists to take care of their condition.

To give an example, let's say you have a full-time RN position paying $80,000 per year, this will allow that individual to purchase a house at 3X-4X gross income -> $240,000-$320,000. Understandably, it is exceedingly difficult to find a house within a reasonable commute and in a decent community from the UVM medical center. As such, there are over 490 open nursing positions at UVM medical center. People go where they are wanted, and these nurses are largely taking jobs in other communities where they can have a more viable lifestyle.

Additionally, the green mountain care board provides another regulatory layer with increased overhead expenses and the UVM Medical Center has a near monopoly of care for much of Vermont. As such, Vermont has the fifth highest health costs per capita in the country (despite being relatively healthy otherwise) and difficulty in accessing health care. For instance, obtaining an MRI brain in the Burlington area via UVM Medical Center will cost 4X – 5X the cost of an MRI brain and an imaging center in the neighboring state.

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I send my child to private school for middle school only due to bullying, racism and a poor curriculum. I don’t expect taxpayers to pay for it. But I disagree public schools need more money to provide a better education. Pretty much all private schools spend less per student than public ones. My child has all academic courses along with art, music and PE. The local public middle school required students to take non-academic courses to fill holes in their schedule and the math and science curriculum are years behind. Plus there’s a no homework policy and no letter grades. The per-pupil cost is twice as much as my child’s tuition. And bullying is ignored even when committee based on race, gender or sexual preference.

The local high school has a great curriculum based on what each student wants to do after graduating and bullying and racism are addressed promptly and efficiently. It will be a great financial relief to benefit from the schools I support with my tax dollars.

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Yes and it will be a travesty if they don’t make some changes to these bills as proposed. The underlying problems with our education system are not going to be solved any time soon and gutting the schools that provide the best education in the state for the most at risk students is not going to help.

Placing the safety of their female basketball team first seems like a reasonable decision by the school.

The problem is nobody wants to pay more in taxes. Using property taxes to fund education is part of how we ended up in this mess to begin with. Do you really think a Republican Governor, even a moderate one like Phil Scott is going to allow for an income tax increase to fund public education? We are in a real pickle that can only be solved by a complete overhaul, like so many other social issues in our country.

I live here I am aware and thankful for SJA. The even have a better facility than many colleges do.

A great place for a vacation home is somewhere else.

Yes but the majority of their students are poor kids from the NEK.

SJA is one of the best schools in New England not just VT. They get students from all over the world.

Sounds again like an enforcement issue.

Ah yes. Thanks

There is a max rate already in place. I could be wrong but I think it's set by the individual district not the state but that could be backwards?. If a private or independent school charges more than that the parents have to pay the difference. Many also charge much less btw.

That is the issue at hand. Are we having a funding issue if schools are performing as expected? Don't try moving the goalposts.

Edit: Dude blocked me, such strong convictions. And name calling? Bet you set a great example for that kid lol

No I’m arguing the issue at hand. The topic of what to do about the shitty schools we have all over the place here in VT wasn’t the topic. There are plenty of things that could be done and should be done to make schools here better. We can never get to any sort of real change because we get hung up on issues like this one.

ETA: you really have no ability to use logic do you lol? This is about education dipshit. We live in a capitalist country. Everything is under the guise of capitalism.

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So this hypothetical teacher with no teaching degree will have classroom management skills or social emotional learning? Just being knowledgeable about a topic doesn't make you the best possible teacher available, was my point.

You may think your teacher with no teaching degree is a good teacher, but they don’t learn class room management skills or social emotional learning. Right now you can get an emergency licensure anyways, so I’m not sure why this is an issue.

It's always weird to me when people wag their finger about rushing to judgement and then freely make their own assumptions.

The public education system is in shambles, specifically because pro-business people have been actively working to undermine public education for decades, including propping up schools like SJA and LI. It's also weird how you say this isn't a black and white issue, yet you're only arguing for private schools here. And for the record, I don't give a shit what religion you may or may not hold, that part is absolutely a distraction. It's about capitalism, not who you pray to. "Avowed socialist," man people really say whatever on the internet, huh?

Edit: This is a great example of people's priorities shifting because they personally see a benefit. You stated you have a kid going to SJA, so now you're strongly defending a private school despite claiming to be an "avowed socialist." So either that was a lie, or your politics take a back seat if you think something is going your way.

No one needs an education degree to get a teaching license. Licensing in Vermont can be pursued the number of different ways and often requires some course work, but definitely doesn't require a specific degree.

I think it’s better to have a maximum per student rate and then standards that receiving schools should be held to. This crap with MVC is ridiculous, but Burr and Burton has never had those issues.

Obviously Manchester made the choice to go that way, but look at a town like Ludlow or Grafton. If their local tax base does not support a full high school, they get grouped into another district, but there are 3 high schools close and depending on where in the town you live changes drive time significantly.

Certainly there is an argument for increased taxes in general, but especially in south central VT there isn’t the population density to support local schools.

In fact with the need for alternative schools in general, I think we should be supporting this, but again, with high standards.

Isn't it weird how when it comes to things like broadband, the state is working to bring that service to underserved areas, but with schools its "well, there's no public school here so we have no choice but to use the private school available"? It stops being weird when you realize for decades now, the pro-business folks have been trying to undermine public education and prop up private schools. They get elected to the school board and purposely underfund the budget (looking at you Barre). Then they cry foul when there is any attempt to get funds back into public schools. They get to undermine public education then point to how ineffective public education is and how private schools are better. All part of the Republican play book where they actively make government worse so they can then tout the benefits of small government.