Maggie Brown Cassidy
CommentatorMaggie Brown Cassidy recently retired from teaching French at Brattleboro Union High School. She was also a teacher trainer and founder of the BUHS Swiss Exchange, which provided homestays and immersion experiences for hundreds of students in Vermont and Geneva. She continues to teach adults and has written many features for the Brattleboro Reformer.
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Teachers, family members, employers - and in fact almost anyone who interacts with other people - have more power than they can imagine, to hurt or to… -
Two current exhibitions at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center are stunning – and very different.Emily Mason: To Another Place spans 6o years of… -
My new Medicare card recently came in the mail as part of an effort to cut down on identity theft. In place of a Social Security number, the new cards… -
Many news sources report that the Vermont Department for Children and Families, or DCF, is having to take responsibility for rapidly increasing numbers of… -
I’ve been a Guardian Ad Litem for a year now, and I’m beginning to see some patterns in how children manage the disruption and stress of being removed…
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At least 30 years ago, when a student brought a gun into the middle school where I was teaching, I realized with a shock how vulnerable we were.But even…
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Current headlines about the resignation of Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director of the FBI, and other controversy surrounding the US intelligence establishment,… -
A recent New Yorker article described how a private guardian convinced a judge to give her the power to remove an elderly Nevada couple from their house…
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In Ken Burns’s new PBS blockbuster, Vietnam, veterans interviewed for the series express a range of emotions.They express pride that they volunteered;…
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By insisting that NFL owners should fire players who kneel during the national anthem, President Trump may have actually validated their exercise of free…
