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 A few folks who are currently students up at Marlboro College contacted me through the college history Web site I did.
It turns out that, and this is what I’ve been told, students no longer have the power at town meeting to change policy by vote AND the administration can AND WILL override students whenever they want.
Now, way back when, when the college was first founded, part of the whole college’s mission was to have a participatory democracy for students. Town meeting was, and is, a selling point for the college, where “everyone has their say”.
Why did it change? I don’t know. A few folks have told me it’s due to the new corporate ideology at the college.
In any case, I hope this (somehow?) changes. And not just because I’m getting tired of hearing bad news about that place . . .
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We also had had, in the beginning, "town meetings", wherein everyone had an equal voice. Then after my graduating year, most were excluded for "executive session" type meetings of some parents and the new Headmaster; then the following year that Headmaster had absconded thousands, and it was all in his authority, there was no recourse. This happens time and again in small schools, yet nobody watches.
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