Chop Wood, Carry Water

County boards of education school mergers, consolidations, or closings: Should public ‘microschools’ be part of the mix? In this  December 23, 2024, blog posting, this writer poses the question of whether ‘public microschools,’ based on existing law for private microschools, should enter the mix when county boards of education are confronted by school facilities reorganization as prompted …

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It is portentous, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old court-house pacing up and down. Or by his homestead, or in shadowed yards He lingers where his children used to play, Or through the market, on the well-worn …

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‘The most important political office is that of the private citizen.’ – Louis D. Brandeis ‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.’ – H. L. Mencken “A week is …

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