Assumptions questioned

Thank you for your continued coverage of Freeport’s proposed withdrawal from RSU 5. The Freeport Withdrawal Committee has proposed that only one budget scenario is relevant for Freeport’s Town Council and its citizenry to evaluate prior to the vote of separation in November, and that is a budget based on maximum student population. The Withdrawal Committee’s attempt to “manufacture consent” by ignoring the projected enrollment data of a stand-alone Freeport High School is puerile propaganda. Eighteen percent of all potential incoming freshman at Freeport High School historically go elsewhere for their education.

As a selectman in Pownal, I might suggest that the Withdrawal Committee’s assumption that all Pownal incoming freshmen will go to Freeport High is a fallacy. The vote is Freeport’s alone. Pownal is working to develop is own educational vision. For the Freeport Withdrawal Committee to manipulate information for its own end seems silly. However, for the Withdrawal Committee to include assumptions

about Pownal students’ intentions needed at the least a rational asterik.

Jon Morris

Pownal