Wed, 07/28/2021 - 10:16pm meganj By: Jonathan Johnson I’ve been reading and ruminating on the discussions on the proposed withdrawal of Lincoln Community School from Mount Abraham Unified School District. I find the whole situation interestingly ironic. We homeschooled our kids right through high school, and the Lincoln school was seemingly supportive of this, as we never experienced any flack or intrusion from them. The state Agency of Education (AOE) on the other hand decided they were within their rights to reinterpret statute, which is not their domain. We were pestered, and threatened with action from the Department for Children and Families by the appointed bureaucrats and wannabe interim commissioner at the time. No amount of quoting the statute to them made any difference, until a legal firm also quoted the statute to them on their letterhead... then, and only then, did AOE back off.