As a recent graduate of Freeport High School, I straddled Freeport’s consolidation history. When a family friend recently asked me to recall those early years of the RSU from my perspective as a then-student, I remembered anxieties of swelling class numbers and a concern for a dwindling sense of Freeport independence. It wasn’t that town lines divided us. No, I had strong friendships with non-Freeport students both before and after consolidation. However, the years since have shown that friendships aside, our town’s values, as revealed in the booth, differed somewhere along the line.

Despite our geographic closeness, there lies a rift between the three towns that is undoubtedly tectonically active. Through a yes vote, we as Freeport residents can restore a Freeport school system with local control that is still open and accepting to others through a tuition-based system.

Please join me in voting yes.

Josh Sturtevant, FHS ’10

Freeport

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