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Will the town of Amherst use ranked-choice voting in its November election?
No. While members of the town council support the idea, it's not on their agenda for this year.
This past April, NewBostonPost's Tom Joyce reported on a highly controversial 91-question survey of students at Milton's public high school and middle school that probed their feelings about race and human sexuality. Mr. Joyce's reporting included information about how high school students were essentially being bribed to complete the survey by offering credit toward community service that the district requires in order for students to graduate.
Many parents and concerned taxpayers were outraged about the line of questioning for students as young as 11 without consent or even notification of their parents, and they let their feelings be known in print, at school committee and selectmen's meetings, and personally to the superintendent of schools. It seems, however, that these opinions and questions fell on deaf ears. Or perhaps it's more a case of selective listening?