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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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My School and My Property Taxes
This year, we’re having to pass a special levy to pay tuition to the schools that take Trego students in from out of district. It’s one of those things about taxation with representation – the only votes from folks we can elect came from Mike Cuffe and Neil Durum (neither of whom is a Trego Read more
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School Rankings Released
The link to find the school rankings for Montana is: https://www.schooldigger.com/go/MT/schoolrank.aspx It shows me, at Trego, the challenges of getting a team of top teachers together. When I took Colorado’s Vocational Education class, I walked away with this phrase written on the blackboard of my mind: “If the student hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught.” Read more
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AI-generated images can exploit how your mind works − here’s why they fool you and how to spot them
Arryn Robbins, University of Richmond I’m more of a scroller than a poster on social media. Like many people, I wind down at the end of the day with a scroll binge, taking in videos of Italian grandmothers making pasta or baby pygmy hippos frolicking. For a while, my feed was filled with immaculately designed Read more
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Tarriffs Made Personal
In general, I have a theoretical preference for free trade – yet I recall Moto’s explanation of Japan’s tariffs on rice. By keeping the price of rice up, small farmers in Japan kept producing rice and kept the country able to feed itself. My thoughts go back to my most recent purchase from China. It’s Read more
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Your Annual Reminder: The time to start trapping wasps is now.
While winter isn’t quite done with us yet, we’ve had a good period of warmth recently. Wasps, as well as bears, are waking from their winter hibernation. I’ve seen a few queen paper wasps scouting for new nesting sites. With this in mind, if you want to control wasps in or around your property, the Read more
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Why do the Levies Differ?
Last week, we looked at a financial comparison between Trego, Fortine, and Olney-Bissell Elementary Districts, and noted the following differences in Levy amounts: With Trego substantially lower than the other two, the obvious question is: Why? Our first point is to compare the levied funds for all three schools- again, using the 24/25 budgets, since Read more
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