I used to think of VPIRG as a pest as the panhandlers they sent out were always hanging around my farm talking nonsense and what I called Burns' bullshit. Now I see the damage they have done. Thanks for the info.
Absolutely agree with your comment (1/8/24) today, Rob! Please keep it up. By the Way: At the last Energy Day held at Crossett Brook School in Waterbury, I realized that Zachariah Watson, husband of my State Senator Anne Watson is the Executive Director of the Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity. I've been disappointed by her (a physics teacher at MPHS) proposal (before becoming Montpelier's mayor) that attracting foreign (read: Chinese) family’s kids to attend Montpelier High Schools could back-fill the naturally shrinking Vermont student population. Then she realized she'd have expenses using the VT College property for housing, have difficulty finding and paying for "dorm parents" fluent in Chinese to manage numerous teens, and that Chinese parents aren't necessarily going to be interested in paying lots of money to send their child to be chaperoned in a Chinese dorm community in Vermont. I heard that she came up with the idea using a $300,000 federal education grant and that the end result was one or two Chinese students that were housed with Montpelier families as is done with the Vermont Mountaineers. :)
I used to think of VPIRG as a pest as the panhandlers they sent out were always hanging around my farm talking nonsense and what I called Burns' bullshit. Now I see the damage they have done. Thanks for the info.
She's my senator too, and, yes, very disappointed. Though not surprised.
Great idea! Thank you!
Absolutely agree with your comment (1/8/24) today, Rob! Please keep it up. By the Way: At the last Energy Day held at Crossett Brook School in Waterbury, I realized that Zachariah Watson, husband of my State Senator Anne Watson is the Executive Director of the Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity. I've been disappointed by her (a physics teacher at MPHS) proposal (before becoming Montpelier's mayor) that attracting foreign (read: Chinese) family’s kids to attend Montpelier High Schools could back-fill the naturally shrinking Vermont student population. Then she realized she'd have expenses using the VT College property for housing, have difficulty finding and paying for "dorm parents" fluent in Chinese to manage numerous teens, and that Chinese parents aren't necessarily going to be interested in paying lots of money to send their child to be chaperoned in a Chinese dorm community in Vermont. I heard that she came up with the idea using a $300,000 federal education grant and that the end result was one or two Chinese students that were housed with Montpelier families as is done with the Vermont Mountaineers. :)