The Teacher’s Contract Pt 6 – Is Frank ignorant of our teacher’s pain? October 8, 2013 Not hardly! “If teachers work harder, have more responsibility, reach more kids, put in longer days and produce impressive results there is a reward…. Continue Reading
The Teacher’s Contract Pt 5 – Cherry Picking October 8, 2013 I’ll spare you Frank’s recitation of the School Board’s chintzy offer of 0% raises. As you might imagine he is offended. How does he… Continue Reading
The Teacher’s Contract Pt 4 – What the DFT’s go along policy has wrought October 8, 2013 Frank unloads the many burdens placed upon teacher’s backs by the School Board. “Talk about a modest proposal. This is it. We don’t want… Continue Reading
The Teacher’s Contract Pt 3 – Picking Wanner apart October 8, 2013 In the next few posts I’ll paste in selected passages of Frank’s wounded prose to stick needles through starting with what this sorrowful missive… Continue Reading
The Teacher’s Contract Pt 2 – A balancing act October 8, 2013 I hope you haven’t fallen under Frank’s spell with his long sentences with their mesmerizing clauses: “The new school year has started. Teachers have… Continue Reading
The Teacher’s Contract Pt 1 – Vintage Wanner October 8, 2013 I haven’t had the pleasure of skewering a Frank Wanner screed in a fourteen years. Until our my School Board hired Julio Almanza I… Continue Reading
The Teacher’s Contract prologue: “Are those jobs really gone?” October 8, 2013 I was holding this piece off for my Not Eudora column after the election. However, it seems timely: ”Are those Jobs Really Gone?” When… Continue Reading
New Threads October 8, 2013 I probably typed 5,000 to 10,000 words up yesterday not all for the blog. As I told a coorespondent I have a small but… Continue Reading
My pitch in 316 words October 8, 2013 Despite the excess of verbiage in this blog my writing can be economical. On Oct 1st Chuck Frederick of the Duluth News Tribune offered… Continue Reading
What wonderful day to put up lawnsigns…. October 7, 2013 …too bad I was busy doing other things. The Sell Central Now posts took up time but there were lots of other things to… Continue Reading
Taking care of business October 7, 2013 I left for the School Board Human Relations and Business Committee meetings at 4:10. I was sitting back in front of this computer at… Continue Reading
Sell Central Now Pt 5 – Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy October 7, 2013 I was wrong to upload the email in the last post. I was taken to task by its author and have just removed it…. Continue Reading
Sell Central Now Pt 4 – “one child” October 7, 2013 The Sell Central Now series is not meant to go in any particular direction. Its what’s going on in my head and what’s been… Continue Reading
Sell Central Now Pt 3, Where the three incumbents stand October 6, 2013 I don’t know. That won’t stop me from speculating. Duluth now has a seven member school board. Four people constitute a majority. As I’ve… Continue Reading
Sell Central Now Pt 2, Where the candidates stand October 6, 2013 Note:It may be best to read these post’s starting with the first of the series here. If I get elected to the School Board… Continue Reading
“A sale of Central is needed as desperately now as ever.” October 6, 2013 So sell it to the Edison Schools now says today’s editorial in the Duluth News Tribune. I don’t plan to vote to sell Central… Continue Reading
Cider in the Rain October 6, 2013 I quit putting up lawnsigns and knocking on doors Friday when I learned that my grandson had a seizure and was sent by ambulance… Continue Reading
I revised that last post 11 times… October 5, 2013 …between 5:12 AM AND 5:45 AM. Its 2317 words long. I made most of my revisions to the first five paragraphs before the break… Continue Reading
The Heisenburg Principle. More damn prologue October 5, 2013 On rare occasions I compose blog posts on my regular computer writing software rather than directly onto my blog software. This post for instance… Continue Reading
Abrupt end to a day’s campaigning October 4, 2013 I was back at it working my way east from far west Duluth when I discovered my family had been trying to reach me…. Continue Reading