send in their checks. And in Dorset, where the property tax will go up nearly thirty-five cents per one hundred dollars of property value, Act 60 has been met with a fury of defiance. The elementary school principle quit when she was forced to fire teachers and scale back art and music classes. John Irving, as mentioned before, is very unhappy, and has a plan of his own. He has taken his son, a kindergartner, out of the Dorset school, and is planning to start his own private school with the principle of the academy where Sen. Peter Shumlin send his children. "My response is as brutally upper class as I can make it," says Irving, "I'm not putting my child in an underfunded public school system". If he is unable to get his school running, Irving says, "I'm moving out of here". These are the sentiments of many residents of the "gold towns". Why should I work hard to give my family the best I can, when the government is just going to steal it from me, and hand it out freely, as if it was theirs. Giving it freely to the other as if the earned it. These are just a couple of the hundreds of stories that surround Act 60. Am I against education for children, of course not? Children are the future of our country, and our state. Without them, we are destined to fail. But Act 60 is not the way to reform Vermont's educational system. Do I have the answers to education reform? No, I do not, but I do not believe following in the footsteps of Marx, Engles, and Hitler is the best place to start....
