I will never forget the year that our local school system decided to give every incoming 9th grader in the county a laptop computer for use in and out of school. It was called the "one to one" project and it was promoted by our Superintendent as the greatest thing ever in education. It would make student achievement soar. There were many in the system that questioned the project since the Superintendent at the time, Karen Salmon, seemed in a hurry to get the program running.

You'd never expect this. A county traditionally in the bottom tier (23 out of 24) of testing scores among school systems in Maryland is number one ranked in percent change in reading scores. A new, young Superintendent who has only been in the office for less than a year is the catalyst for the change. It's an unlikely situation for such a good result. But that is what happened in 2025.

At the December 2, 2025 Worcester County Board of Education budget hearing, Board member Katie Addis (District 6) made an announcement. After three years of service exposing the darkness and deception within the school system, she made a difficult decision to gracefully resign. Listen below: Since the beginning of my time on the board, I've always said I would be in this seat to try and invoke change for the greater good of Worcester County. I wanted this so badly because I w