Vermont Technical College

You will never get ahead that way.

I know you like fixing cars, and Vermont Technical College has an auto program at their campus in Randolph.

I know the president of the college.

Let's you and I go down there together to meet him and see what it's like." He said he'd think about it.

100%.

And number two, how do you do that in a way that you keep it affordable and you keep these schools in rural communities going? Because to think about Johnson and Castleton and Linden, which are three of the four Vermont state schools, Vermont State Randolph, which is Vermont Tech, but all four of them are really like really drivers of the local economies in those places because these are small towns and and a job at a college even if you're the person pushing a broom for 22 bucks an hour that's actually a really good job in a small rural town because you got all the benefits and you got all that stuff so as the vermont as the powers that be have figured out how to work through it they've kind of thrown a lot at the wall to see what sticks and works really well this is mostly for the listener not for you because you obviously know that i've been

through yeah for sure

Right.

And then they decided that lasted for two or possibly three years and that disappeared.

And then they decided it was going to be Vermont State University.

And then there was like at Johnson, at Lyndon, Vermont Tech, wasn't Vermont Tech.

I think that maybe that initial, that final idea might've been the best idea in the beginning.