Maggie Brown Cassidy
CommentatorMaggie Brown Cassidy recently retired from teaching French at Brattleboro Union High School. She was also a teacher trainer and founder of the BUHS Swiss Exchange, which provided homestays and immersion experiences for hundreds of students in Vermont and Geneva. She continues to teach adults and has written many features for the Brattleboro Reformer.
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A few weeks ago I heard a former Stanford University dean discuss the perils of overparenting. Julie Lythcott focused on college students, but her message鈥�
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This week as part of our Gunshots series, we asked Vermonters about the role of guns in their lives. Commentator Maggie Brown Cassidy had this to say.I鈥�
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I just happened to be in France during the recent presidential election there, and discovered the French candidates had some interesting things in common鈥�
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Immigration has always played a vital role in Vermont鈥檚 history. First, a sparse but long-established Native American population was joined by the English鈥�
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News from Washington is coming in waves, as each new appointment, executive order, and White House action washes over and obscures the last. So it would鈥�
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When my daughter, who has her own infant daughter, mentioned that many local people would be marching in Washington, New York, Boston, Montpelier and鈥�
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In recent months, the Southern Poverty Law Center has reported a nationwide spike in incidents of harassment against minorities, particularly immigrants鈥�
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This summer France was in turmoil about, of all things, a bathing suit. A few Muslim women, constrained by their religion to cover their bodies, appeared鈥�
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A recent statewide poll by the Castleton Polling Institute found that Vermonters鈥� attitudes toward refugee resettlement varied sharply between lifelong鈥�
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In this most unpredictable of political seasons, gun safety has re-emerged as a major issue. Lawmakers have long been reluctant to debate gun laws on both鈥�