Letter to the editor: Makleff and Whelan-Wuest will rebuild trust

As a current Board member myself, I know these two will contribute to building healthy, vibrant, and high-achieving schools across our district that our communities can trust and rely on.

We want to thank our community for the overwhelming support on election day, and we look forward to serving on the ACSD School Board.

An Addison Central School District board election firmly rooted in the debate over the future of small rural schools culminated in wins on Tuesday for two outspoken advocates for keeping all of the ACSD’s elementary schools open.

As a parent of two ACSD kids (MUHS and MUMS), the one thing that I look for most from my school board representatives is a willingness to listen to the needs of the community.

How do we move forward from this impasse into a less jaded, more optimistic future? On a national level, I genuinely have no idea; but at a local level, that’s a horse of a different color.

As parents of young children we are concerned about school consolidations, not just whether they should happen but how they will happen.

In the March 1 election, we should all support Jamie McCallum and Joanna Doria in the race for Addison Central School Board.

I’m writing to invite you to join me in supporting Joanna Doria (Ripton) and Jamie McCallum (Weybridge) for the ACSD School Board.

Jamie McCallum is an ideal candidate for election to the Addison Central School District board.

As the ACSD faces many challenges around funding and potential school closures, we are fortunate to have several well-qualified candidates. Among them is Jamie McCallum.

I first met Jamie a decade ago at a community meeting of the Vermont Workers’ Center, where we volunteered in support of Vermont’s freshly-passed universal healthcare law.

Having current parents on the board is important because they feel how the board’s opinions affect their kids’ everyday lives.

Our schools and communities have been through a lot in the Addison Central School District. The current school board has not been up to the task.

In the ACSD, each town has at least one representative on the school board. You might ask, “Why are there a specific number of seats allocated to each town if we vote for them all district-wide?

We are parents of a kindergartner and have generations of roots in our rural towns and schools. We are writing to ask our community to support us in voting for Jamie McCallum and Joanna Doria for ACSD Board on March 1.