Our School
Rumble Strip
Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rumbull Strip, Vermont. |
| 0:03.0 | This far north, if you ask anybody in this town, they'll tell you, straight out. |
| 0:08.0 | Mompilia doesn't hear us. |
| 0:10.0 | They just don't care about us up here either way. |
| 0:15.0 | But in our own small communities, we are somebody. |
| 0:19.0 | But when your voice is gone what is left there's there's nothing |
| 0:27.0 | that was Lincoln Patel longtime school board chairman from Holland, Vermont, small town way up on the Canadian border. |
| 0:39.0 | This is a show about something that happened here in Vermont last winter. |
| 0:44.4 | It was a terrible winter and toward the end we were all pretty fed up and tired and broke and |
| 0:50.1 | everyone was worried about taxes because they're too high. |
| 0:54.4 | And right in the middle of all that came a piece of school legislation called Act 46. |
| 1:00.8 | It was a school consolidation bill that promised to lower our taxes or that's what they were saying in the news in the beginning and then some time passed and all of a sudden they were saying that the school |
| 1:14.5 | consolidation bill was really about equal opportunity for all Vermont kids. |
| 1:19.2 | Well the truth is it wasn't really clear how it would do either of these things, but since everyone |
| 1:26.5 | was fed up being cold and paying taxes, the bill passed. |
| 1:31.9 | And here we are. |
| 1:34.2 | It's nearly a year later, and there's still plenty of mystery about how or whether this legislation |
| 1:40.8 | will lower our taxes, how it will improve education for our kids, |
| 1:45.0 | and by whose standards, |
| 1:47.0 | and there are even some pending lawsuits about the constitutionality |
| 1:51.0 | of some parts of this legislation. |
| 1:54.0 | But that's not what today's show is about. |
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