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SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt.—When it comes to rebellious and cantankerous behavior, Vermonters go back a ways.
They didn’t join the original 13 colonies in the Union until 1791, four years after the Constitution was signed. Before that, Vermont had been its own republic for 14 years, says Mariessa Dobrick, a state archivist: “George Washington once wrote a letter saying, `I wouldn’t mess with them.’ ”
In 1961, when education…