Community Sports
Team Maine leader
Mt. Blue High School skier Emily Ramsey skated powerfully across the finish line to bring second-place honors to the “Maine 1” team in the anchor leg of the mixed (co-ed) relay race that served as the grand finale to the Eastern J2 Championships in Jackson, N.H. Ramsey’s team-mates Silas Eastman of Fryeburg, Molly Siegel of Gould Academy and Tom Rabon of Leavitt skied strong races to place the team in a position to make the podium. “Maine 1” finished 20 seconds behind the winning team from New Hampshire and was another 19 seconds ahead of the third-place team from Massachusetts. A total of more than 200 racers competed in the three-day TD Bank Eastern J2 Championships, including invited non-New England guest teams from Idaho, Washington, and Quebec.
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I like the teacher and administration evaluation piece. Teaching our children is one of the most important jobs out there, there really needs to be accountability. In any other job you have to do your job well or find a new one. Why don't we give our children the respect they deserve by weeding out the bad teachers who aren't doing their jobs and preparing them for the future. I really don't like the public funding of religious schools proposal, from any angle really. First you have the separation of church and state, public money shouldn't be funding religious education. Second if I were part of a religious school and took public money I would be concerned that then the state has it's foot in the door and may try to direct what I can and cannot teach. I have no issue with private/religious schools but in my opinion there needs to be a clear separation from public money.
verified on "School choice, public funding for religious institutions headline LePage education plan"
Oh, and on public school choice:
In order to save the [school], we had to destroy it. Screw fixing it, right? (read: sarcasm)
I weep for the comatose state of the American Community. (Though there's still a slight pulse.) George Harrison's "I, me, me, mine," should be the theme song for LePage, his Ayn-Randian legion of cantankerous curmudgeons, and all the other lockstep TEA Party ideologues in this bitterly divided nation.
Together we stand, divided we fall. Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy. Selah.
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