In 2017, nearly 3 years ago, the Montpelier Police Department received a call from one of their school buildings about a fire alarm going off. Corporal Matthew Knisley, who was only a resource officer of 5 years at the time,…
Day: January 9, 2020
“None of These Kids Need a Jail”: The Woodside Debate
In early June 2019, a teenage girl placed at Woodside, suffering from mental illness, was locked in solitary confinement, entirely naked. She was forced to the floor by staff while being recorded. This 17-year-old is now suing the state. Incidents…
Rogue Chicken at U-32
The chicken stood where it had never stood before, high above the ground on top of U-32 junior Payton Garibaldi’s blue Kia. The wild, magnificent South American Araucana hen made herself at home, plucking some of her black and rust-colored…
Hackers Steal and Publish All Naviance Goals
On Friday, Naviance Inc. announced that hackers have stolen the Naviance goals of 3.7 million students across America. That includes every single goal made by U-32 students. The hackers were hoping to gain information about the American schooling system to…
“We all felt equally duped”: A Nonprofit Dilemma
Barbara McAndrew was working as the fundraising coordinator for a nonprofit known as the Global Economic Action Institute. This was her first job with a nonprofit organization after having worked only big corporate jobs. She was in charge of grants…
“Someone else’s problem?” A Manager’s Dilemma
*Some details have been changed for anonymity. In the early 1970s, Jeffery Link was working for the National Forests Department. He managed projects involving wood, lumber, flammability characteristics, and many more. One day he got asked to do a…
A Workplace, or a Safe Place?
(The person I chose to interview has chosen to stay anonymous, and with that, throughout the story I will refer to them as Lina.) Lina saw it with her own eyes. The two people below her never saw her standing…
A Sweatshop, Sexism & Drugs: Made in the USA
Working at the Company (this article doesn’t use its real name) in the colder months was not comfortable. A sewing shop was set up in an old grange hall in Highgate, Vermont. A cold winter and the poorly heated building…
The Story of an Untold Girl
As a known member of the Vermont community, she would like herself and anyone in this story to remain anonymous, so first and last initials are being used, N.T. and H.B. N.T.s dad molested her from ages seven to…