Times have changed, but the formula remains stuck in 1949. The wealth disparities between neighboring towns simply did not exist at anything like their current scale. The founders of the regional school system could not have foreseen the inequity their formula has imposed on most towns today.
Eagleton “is really the last stop” for boys and young men who have been through a number of other settings that didn’t work.
-- Eric MacLeish, attorney for Eagleton School