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...taxes or cut Weston's $7 million school budget by $400,000 for the 1981-82 school year. With indirect federal subsidies suddenly imperiled, the town cannot decide whether to spend less in the future or tax itself more. "We must face economic realities," intones Budget Basher John Lupton, a silver-haired onetime advertising executive remotely related to Puritan Spoilsport Cotton Mather. But Lupton is having trouble convincing his neighbors that his newly formed antiwaste group, COST (Coalition Opposing Soaring Taxes) is not antieducation...
Much of the townsfolk's rancor is aimed at the school system's superintendent, Thomas Aquila, already one of the highest paid in the state. At $56,000, he makes more than the Governor of Connecticut. "We don't have quality education," complains Lupton. "What we have is spending gone berserk...
...bagpipe band babbled for Conservative State Senator John Mather Lupton...
Last week, in blazing sun, an army of migrants, stooping across Weld County's fertile fields, picked beans, carrots, tomatoes and onions. But their children had a different job. After breakfasting on Coca Cola, the youngsters boarded a bus for school in Fort Lupton, where they listened intently to a second-grade teacher: "Armando, get me the cup-cup-cup. Luisa, pick up the plate-plate-plate." In the fifth-grade room, a shy girl of twelve whispered in Spanish: "I want to be a teacher someday. A fifth-grade teacher." After paying 13? apiece, the youngsters downed...
...Lupton's five points: ¶ We believe in universal religion which is greater than any of its present organized expressions at their best, greater than Hinduism, Judaism, or Christianity. ¶ We believe in a universal church where theists, humanists, Christians, Jews and all religious truth-seekers may come together, each contributing to the common enrichment of their church. ¶ We believe in the development of this universal religion in order to break down today's tensions and so forward the sense of world community . . . ¶ We believe in the right of each individual to his own convictions...