News and Views

Question 1: During School Meetings can Bow residents who are teachers or school employees vote themselves a raise or is it a conflict of interest for them to do that?

BCC Answer 1: Yes, Bow residents who happen to be teachers, school, and town employees for that matter, can do so. That is a huge benefit, but on the other hand how much they make per year (from the town) is public record.

Question 2: If question #1 is, yes they can, than do we have to right to know what percent of voters at the school meeting are school employees and their family?

BCC Answer 2: Yes you have the right to know who registered to vote on school and town meeting day. All you have to do is make a request to the supervisor of the check list or any member Bow check list representative.

IB Curriculum Question (multi-part)

Question 1. What is the purpose of IB when we already have a good American based AP Program?

BCC Answer 1. We recommend that you attend the public hearing on IB on Tuesday February 12th @ 7:00 PM at the Bow High School and ask this question.

Question 2. What does IB provide that AP doesn’t? My initial opinion in that the AP programs are more geared to providing what America needs vs the IB program which provides what the UN or UN-ized IB supporters THINK we (America) need in the world? Or do I have it backwards?

BCC Answer 2. We have posted several website links that touch upon that topic and we encourage you to read them and forward us ones you find that answer to your question.

Question 3. Agreeing to an IB program in Bow schools means an automatic compromise on Bow curriculum (literally and legally).

BCC Answer 3. Once again the legal questions should be asked at the public hearings but the published literature on IB clearly state that the is the curriculum is not controlled locally but dictated the IB governing body. This is one of the biggest concerns with IB.

Question 4. Again, if we have AP, why is Bow considering this?

BCC Answer 4. There is no doubt that the Bow High School AP program is well acclaimed and has clearly assisted our graduating seniors to get into some very good Colleges and Universities. With that said, let the debate begin whether or not Bow Needs the IB program or just wants the IB program.

Question 5. What does Bow get out of it?

BCC Answer 5. One thing is for certain the cost of the IB program is high and the Bow taxpayer will get a big bill out of it. What detriment or good that comes from this controversial, IB program still needs to be debated. BCC hopes the debate will be fact driven and not one based on emotion.

Question 6: Can we improve on what we’ve got before we implement an elitist program for 25 or so kids seeing that only 1 in 4 are proficient in math?:

Not only does this scream that we have issues that need to be addressed before even considering implementing the elitist IB Program, this proves that instead of focusing our energies on acquiring the newest and brightest thing out there, we need to teach our students reading, writing and arithmetic in their most basic forms.

BCC Answer 6: There isn’t much to answer when BCC viewers get their facts together. We do have to caution the people of Bow to do their homework because the IB program is not new and there are certainly disagreements that it is far from the brightest as well.