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BELLOWS FALLS â Superintendent of School Christopher Pratt has taken out a âno trespassâ order against school director Jason Terry, which prohibits him from the grounds of Bellows Falls Union High School and its activities, after he got into a public dispute with Principal Christopher Hodsden.
The Windham Northeast Supervisory Union superintendent said Friday via email he took out the order out of concern for the faculty, staff and students at the high school after several of them witnessed a verbal confrontation between Terry and Hodsden late last month at the high school.
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WESTMINSTER â Bellows Falls Union High Schoolâs departing principal, Christopher Hodsden, has been honored by his fellow Vermont principals as the Robert F. Pierce Principal of the Year.
Hodsden, 55, who has been principal at the high school for the past 16 years, recently gave his notice that he would be leaving the school at the end of the year to pursue other opportunities.
Before he was principal, he taught mathematics and was assistant principal at the 330-student school, but he said the award hasnât changed his mind about leaving.
âEvery day for the past two weeks, when I have entered the building, our attendance secretary, who does student COVID-19 health screenings, says, âHave you changed your mind yet?ââ
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Our Vermont legislators recently commissioned a state-of-the-art study to investigate how best to apportion funds to schools equitably. Unfortunately for the students of Vermont, it detailed serious inequities in school funding. What this study unveiled was an outdated distribution of funds to its districts. For 20 years the tax structure in Vermont has skewed away from fully supporting our most vulnerable students and families. Nearly 60 percent of Vermont schools have had their equalized students undercounted, some by more than 20 percent. This has led to higher tax rates and fewer resources for these schools. This has left lasting scars on our kids, and the deepest scars are in the poorest school districts.
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Gaetano Putignano, chairman of the Rockingham Select Board, and others participate in the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House, in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Monday, March 1, 2021.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Deb Wright listens to people speaking during the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House Monday night.
Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer
Doug MacPhee, of Rockingham, addresses the Select Board during the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House Monday night.
Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer
Rockingham hosted the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House, in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Monday, March 1, 2021.
BELLOWS FALLS A member of the Bellows Falls Middle School community tested positive for COVID-19, according to an announcement by Superintendent Christopher Pratt, posted late Wednesday afternoon on the