* The Longest and Most Joyous Retirement Party in Human History !!

Here are the voting totals according to the Valley News.

Kevin Chistie (D)  2,154

Sheila Vowinkel  (D) 1,668

Alex DeFelice  (R) 1,392

Paul Keane (I) 806

My best wishes to the winners, Ms. Vowinkel and Mr. Christie !  

THE WORLD’S LONGEST AND MOST JOYOUS RETIREMENT PARTY

Five and a half months ago when I announced I would run an Un-campaign as an Independent, I was in my 24^th year of teaching at Hartford High school.  I intended to continue and resign only if I won election.  It quickly became apparent that as a candidate I would be in a potential conflict-of-interest situation since students would inevitably question me about the election and I did not want to try to influence their beliefs, as opposed to influence their command of literature.

So I rertired.

Then the wonderful gifts came:

·        A recent graduate emailed me that she had “registered to vote because of me” (what a wonderful feeling that gave me.)

·        People stopped me in the store and wished me well.

·        My pooper-scooper video went viral and received 2,400 views in one week. link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp3tTnqp_Lk

·        Two distinguished colleagues wrote letters to the Valley News supporting my campaign. Link http://pkvermonter.blogspot.com/2012/11/summing-up-scroll-through-this-post-for.html

• I got the courage to speak out to school boards about the unfairness of testing late-bloomers with standardized testing http://youtu.be/mCKvXgsfht8

In short, THIS HAS BEEN THE LONGEST AND MOST JOYOUS RETIREMENT PARTY  in human history!!

Thanks to you all, and especially the 806 voters who supported me.

PK