Kelly Hedglin Bowen: Are we powerless?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Kelly Hedglin Bowen, who is a writer, mom, activist and sailing instructor in St. George, where she teaches creative writing from her floating classroom on Lake Champlain. She is a director on the Champlain Valley School District School Board. Her prose appears in Creative Nonfiction, The Fiction Advocate, The Pitkin Review and online at The Huffington Post. The opinions reflected in this essay are that of the writer and not of the CVSD Board.
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