A little bird at my birdfeeder told me that an agent of the Academy is setting up a pro-Academy blog site. But they don’t want to disclose the site to Cafe bloggers because they don’t want bloggers that have a different opinion. Certainly if we could learn the address to this new site, we would provide a link to their site just as we have done for the Academy website. From some of the statements below, the Cafe administrators think that this new blog site should be called “www.CPSacademy.com“
• It is apparent that the Academy has stacked its Board of Trustees with Woodstock residents of the CPS persuasion
• CPS representation on the BOT appears to be for ‘protection’ from the relentless attacks on the Board of Education and town operating budgets, but to the exclusion of the bill from the Academy – a kind of ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’ relationship.
• These same CPS activists are the majority on the Trustee Nominating Committee presumably to guarantee that additions to the Board of Trustees share their political agenda and control the direction of the Academy.
• The Academy bill to the Town can be viewed as “taxation without (fair) representation.�
• The Academy is a “de facto natural monopoly�.
• Students in towns which send to the Gilbert School or Norwich Free Academy have more than one reasonable choice of local high schools to attend.
• Although the Woodstock ‘residents’ on the BOT claim to represent the town of Woodstock, one lives out of the country and does not attend BOT meetings (but may have the option to vote on certain matters by proxy), one pays no taxes in town and has no ‘official’ residence, and one exhibited a poor work attendance record while working in the Woodstock Public School System (information disseminated by CPS).
• Uniformly Academy Trustees and representatives distort the goals of the Breen initiative, and the role of the BOE in this initiative, to turn public opinion against it.