Harlows Sugar House in Putney does a lot of shipping, and lots of cute bottle options

Lol, technically taught propaganda and build up to wwI, didn't get to actually cover much of the war itself. That class was US history not world so I covered mostly what was going on in the US that led to its involvement in the war My time there ended in May and the students had a full month of more after that. I taught world history in another class, covering Greece/ Rome etc.

Why would I make up a story like this, fame, wealth, and glory?

It was my student teaching position so I was at that particular school for a semester, so unpaid and no contract. Since getting my license hinged on my performance, reviews from my mentor teachers and my professors, I was afraid to go to the superintendent, etc. (Also being an inexperienced teacher I thought it was my fault for not being able to control the situation and did not realize exactly how bad it was). I decided not to pursue teaching as a career after that because of my experience at that school. I did take one long term sub position years later and had a wonderful experience, but had already pursued another career and so let my license lapse.

It's not for sale. You don't have to believe it but I taught social studies and that experience made me decide to never pursue that career. I would send the kid to the office, file the written disciplinary form, and nothing would happen. Lucky me I taught Civil War, Reconstruction, and up through WW1, so race and the culture/political climate of the south and north came up a lot. I would send him out of the room sometimes several times a week for using the n-word, making comments about women/poc being too stupid to have the vote, you name it. They had a meeting with his parents about *attendance * but never addressed the bullying of the only black student in my class. Student finally had enough of being called a n-word and shoved the kid up against the wall, they both got in school suspension, racist kid didn't show up for his.
Apparently they really just wanted this kid to graduate and get out of the school, he needed my class (along others) to graduate. I now believe that my mentor teachers probably never followed through and spoke to the principal on my behalf, and that the principal just wanted the kid out and to not anger the parents. I should have told my professor but I was led to believe that not being able to handle the situation myself would reflect poorly on me (one of the mentor teachers had the sink or swim philosophy). I now understand that the school was not doing its job to protect the students and myself as a learning teacher, and I should have been a stronger advocate for them and myself.

Yes, southern New Hampshire.

This is not an isolated incident, in the mid 2000s Iwas student teaching and had a white student bring a binder with KKK stickers on it, threaten a black student and use terrible slurs repeatedly in my class - on a daily basis. Not only did the principal of the school refuse to address the issue, the student was repeatedly sent back to class in the same day with zero consequences, creating an environment in which I could not protect other students from racist and misogynistic bullying. My mentor teachers in the school also refused to step in and advocate for any kind of disciplinary action. The only time this student was disciplined was when a student of color got in an altercation with the student, and both were "punished equally" for fighting.

Or in any better state of maintenance/oversight, which it is not either. There has been talk of using federal funds to encourage lower/mixed income housing to be built, but it's hard to do with VT zoning, the housing market, and the cost and availability of construction labor and materials.

I am disappointed we haven't been able to come up with a better system: rural/ small towns tend to have small unsheltered populations, so seasonal shelters aren't a great fit either. The facilities have to be family friendly shelters or choose to be for adults only so that limits the populations it can serve (and small towns are rarely large enough to accommodate two separate shelters). It's difficult to find a pool of volunteers large enough to staff (and because it's overnights, is even more difficult to find volunteers), the insurance for temporary shelters is expensive, and its sometimes difficult to find locations for these temporary shelters (think "not in my backyard" now with the added difficulty in the rental market) Hotel vouchers seemed promising because they allowed for privacy, decreased worries about location/ volunteers/insurance. The amount of money it costs either way to house unsheltered populations is very high and especially problematic in rural New England (if we had higher population density and better public transportation some of the costs/issues would be decreased). Our money would be better spent toward keeping people in their own housing- whether that's through a guaranteed income, subsidies, job training, caseworkers who could assist people in getting jobs or housing or navigating fuel/ for assistance, or more plentiful and affordable housing, I don't know.... This is a complaint I've heard from other people who have experienced homelessness in VT, but I don't know what the solution is because fines or inspectors would probably not create better temporary housing, just less housing (these slum motels would not change, they'd just stop accepting these long term guests).