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Lisa Foltz Allan May 22, 2013 at 07:35 am
Only 34%? It was packed when I was there. I thought there would me many more votes
Steven DeVaux May 13, 2013 at 03:58 am
Why would there be cuts to staff they're proposed to get 3% more than last year? Any cuts to staff…Read More would be by choice, not by budget just like the federal governments furloughs.
Kate Roberts Dlugozima May 13, 2013 at 02:21 am
Education across the country is a mess right now. But I think Brookfield District has been pretty…Read More efficient. That's why I hate to see cuts to staff. So it would be nice to see fewer perennial "vote no" signs on lawns. That is all.
Steven DeVaux May 11, 2013 at 10:42 am
Thank you Stan. Glad you we're bullied too much by the courtesy nazi's. The First Amendment is still…Read More in effect for now. I don't know why they're quoting the 5th. Nobody is incriminating themselves as far as I can see, but that's just me. Who knows?
InterestedBrookfieldResident May 11, 2013 at 12:02 am
We're talking basic courtesy here and nothing about the Fifth Amendment. Every board member has…Read More his/her own email address. It makes perfect sense to go directly to the source instead of on a thread that only a handful of people read.
Susan Balla April 29, 2013 at 09:26 pm
I think this is fantastic about Brookfield. I am a 1970 graduate of Brookfield. We were just the…Read More third class to graduate from that school. We did not have a football team. We did not have a good school band. It was a combination of Junior High and Senior High. We got most of our teachers from the south and not from our northern schools. Most of the time senior were more interested in whose number was going to be called for the draft. We only had 125 kids graduating. Now we lost seventeen people from our class. Three suicides, many illnesses and car accidents. Many of my classmates have stayed in the area. Very few moved away.
Steven DeVaux April 25, 2013 at 04:34 am
No mention of Brookfield in the statewide article.…Read More
http://blog.ctnews.com/trending/2013/04/23/trending-where-the-best-high-schools-are/
Is Bivona a legend in his own mind?
Steven DeVaux April 25, 2013 at 12:32 am
That would only spark State Representative David Scribner from Brookfield tointroduce a bill in the…Read More assembly to prohibit it
Deane Renda April 24, 2013 at 10:22 pm
Fantastic! WMS is very proud of all of our students that participated. Good luck at Jasmin, Mae,…Read More Jacob, Matt, Amelie, Kylie and Matt and the high school Performance Team in the World Finals at Michigan State.
Randall M. Young April 15, 2013 at 11:53 am
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BuckWheat May 8, 2013 at 05:49 pm
Gotta love the internet.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/527289-brookfield.html
Ray DiStephan May 8, 2013 at 11:09 am
Hello Art,
Thanks for the thoughtful comments and questions.
The Distance Learning program lost…Read More momentum because schools could not agree on a compatible daily schedule and yearly calendar.One year one school pulled out and the next year another school pulled out until it just became no longer viable.
We had a full class of students as we provided the teacher, but other districts had much fewer students. It became very difficult to provide student support outside of the classroom.
I am doubtful that any schools use this format any longer as online/virtual high schools have replaced this older format.
I hope that helps.
Steven DeVaux May 8, 2013 at 01:04 am
The didn't decrease the budget. They decreased the Super Sized budget increase. In doing so they may…Read More have knocked off the cost of one referendum....something Newtown didn't do.
Michelle May 2, 2013 at 01:12 pm
I think this is just a wonderful way to recognize and give thanks to Brookfield's finest. Brookfield…Read More police officers are dedicated to our community and do a job well done. This is an outstanding token of appreciation by our students, faculty and administrators. It is nice to see this lovely gesture.
Steven DeVaux May 6, 2013 at 08:26 pm
Doug,
A good suggestion is not paying the politicians and diverting that money to benefits the kids…Read More in town. Washington and Hartford are full of paid politicians - does Brookfield have to be a "wanna be" too? They could donate their payments back to the town and be a volunteer like everyone else. Why don't they?
By the way, thank you for signing your full name.
Steven DeVaux May 6, 2013 at 08:22 pm
Nicole,
Did your parents bestow you with a last name or do you simply lack the honesty to use it…Read More due to shame of some sort? It appears you do like, nor support diversity and are challenged when opinions different than your own are expressed. It is most interesting that you appointed yourself spokesperson for "most".
I find that the development of four corners offers the opportunity to close the wide gap that exists in Connecticut and is an outstanding project to clean up the Brownfields that exist at the same time.
Communities change over time with resettlement of people. Brookfield isn't any different. Welcoming large extended families of people new to America is the American way. Unless you are a native American (and if you are I seriously applaud you) this is how your forebears came about in this country. Are you wishing any less on others? If so, why?
Jeff Albarn April 15, 2013 at 01:40 pm
Absolutely makes sense to install a police presence in every single school in town. It's no…Read More different than installing locks on the school door...albeit with associated costs on a grander scale...Let's work to eliminate the countless ":assistant to the assistant" administrative roles in our government and schools if we have to, but it's the one thing that the inhabitants of Brookfield could vote through that could be an visible, appropriate response to the events that precipitated this conversation. Does it create more of a "police state" like John Mainhart proposes? Perhaps, but no more than already exists...I would offer a police presence in schools develops a respect for the badge and a better sense of security and would be an adequate response rather than posturing about costs and the fear of a receding Newbury that really hasn't existed in 225 years... Gary Gramling, Joey Lamparelli, and Maureen Will were all repurposed at points in their respective careers to address a growing need to develop a relationship with the youth, and this is no different. It's now time to more than have one of our finest donning a McGruff the Crime Dog costume...
Publius April 15, 2013 at 01:03 am
If the desire was to keep our children safe, statistically, the best use of money would be to…Read More install seat belts in the school buses. Instead, we're going to deal with a short term reaction to an unpreventable event by committing to a long term expansion of the police force, with the attendant benefit and retirement expenses.
School is the place where we will prepare our children for the future. As we are in this pattern of response, that future will inevitably move us closer to being a police state. We may as well get them used to having a policeman watching their every move from a young age.
John Mainhart April 12, 2013 at 03:22 pm
I respect those souls who want to protect their sons and daughters, but I am greatly concerned that…Read More all our answers to violence seem to enlarge our already too large police state in this once free country. Many times our focus on being safe erodes our freedom and ,makes us more fearful ,of our ,fellow human beings. I believe confronting our fears in this way will make us regret the country we have created.
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