This is from a student in our schools… April 9, 2012 …not me and my idle speculations. Reader’s View: Duluth school district hasn’t kept its promises If ISD 709’s plan was to make kids leave… Continue Reading
Speaking of effrontery March 22, 2012 Coming from the Chairman of the School Board whose decision to betray Duluth voters and tax them to high heaven leading to the evaporation… Continue Reading
Spare me! March 22, 2012 I keep collecting emails from the DFL candidates who want to challenge Chip Cravaack. I rarely read them. I’ll have time for that later…. Continue Reading
Speaking of idiocy sans my smart mouth – this infuriates me March 21, 2012 Be prepared. Next year will be worse than this: Duluth school district classroom sizes are again set to grow larger with teaching ranks expected… Continue Reading
Will Duluth be a “priority” (bad) district … March 19, 2012 …or a “reward school” (good) District? Find out Thursday: Press Release from the Minnesota Department of Education: Commissioner Cassellius to Kick-Off Second Leg of… Continue Reading
Pray that your children’s teachers were… March 19, 2012 …masterers rather than testers. There is widespread belief that individual differences in intelligence are innate and unmodifiable. Psychologist Carol Dweck discovered that some children… Continue Reading
Word Search of the Day March 19, 2012 What does a successful education require that most people in school bend over backward to avoid? Mistakes The challenge is to make students welcome… Continue Reading
Destroying email could bring down the English Government March 13, 2012 From the Daily Dish. The District and JCI got our attorney just at the time he was about to be given access to it…. Continue Reading
Next year will be even worse March 13, 2012 for the Duluth Schools: increasing the student to staff ratio by another 0.92, a move that would mean about 12 teacher layoffs and likely… Continue Reading
Will Teacher Tenure changes in Minnesota spark a Walker-like reaction? February 28, 2012 This story’s headline in the Strib had me wondering. I don’t think so. It only effects one, albeit the largest, public employee union. It… Continue Reading
Let me tell you about Zeke February 27, 2012 After I’d survived a year of being the only outsider in North Mankato’s insular (if not inbred) Garfield Junior high a kid with bright… Continue Reading
When copyright laws were extended to 75 years… February 23, 2012 …I paid attention. We need a Congressmen who would take us back to the original intent of our copyright and patent laws. They are… Continue Reading
“Think tanks” that sound… February 22, 2012 …like they came from the Soviet Union:” “Heritage wants to unify the social conservatives, foreign policy hawks, and free marketers. In politics, there are… Continue Reading
Speaking of Groupthink February 20, 2012 An indictment of my favorite info dump – Wikipediea: For the past 10 years I’ve immersed myself in the details of one of the… Continue Reading
How were the Kansas City Schools fixed to the breaking point? February 18, 2012 This story on today’s NPR Saturday Edition never mentions the judge whose ruling preceded the death watch for the public schools of Kansas City…. Continue Reading
Reporting on the Minnesota Supreme Court February 16, 2012 The case against the other unfortunate area School Board that trusted Johnson Controls Inc. From the Timberjay courtesy its Editor: Justices have many questions… Continue Reading
JCI’s other local School Disaster February 15, 2012 Lie, conceal, lie, conceal, go to court. Two legal disputes involving a rural northern Minnesota school district could affect how other Minnesota school districts… Continue Reading
recrimination = finger pointing February 15, 2012 Whoopsie Daisy! Our richest and poorest elementary schools might might face construction delays. Its all IV Foster’s fault. The people in charge of the… Continue Reading
Downward spiral of the Duluth Schools February 14, 2012 And we haven’t yet hit bottom. Now that they decided to give us the Red Plan without your input they would like your help… Continue Reading
Amputating one’s foot is good becuz… February 10, 2012 …it let’s you save all that money on shoes. That’s one way of rationalizing connected events. Sometimes however the silver lining has no connection… Continue Reading