Category: small local schools

The One Room Compromise

By Mickey Friedman August 16, 2014 Monterey’s one-room schoolhouse is just miles from the much larger Monument Mountain Regional High School, but the expected operating costs of less than $162,000 for 2015 seems to engender as much controversy as the…

Hard Times High

August 25, 2012 By Mickey Friedman In the old days, doing nothing cost you nothing. And there was a big difference between doing nothing and doing something. Somehow, now, doing nothing costs forty-two million dollars. I know squat about building…

Small Schools

By Mickey Friedman February 4, 2012 No kids, a different district, so I am just an interested bystander in the raging debate about the small schools of Monterey, Egremont and New Marlborough. Having taught I have a continuing interest in…