“I am somebody who tries to take my mask off.” March 29, 2017 Today’s story about the Superintendent canceling his job search began with a post yesterday on his Facebook page. The Trib’s education reporter called me… Continue Reading
The Rape of Nanking March 28, 2017 WDIO’s reporter, Julie Kruse, called me as I was adding another two books to “my reading list.” More on the books momentarily. Today’s ongoing… Continue Reading
Enrollment Chess March 28, 2017 Today’s DNT article on a proposed expansion of the Wrenshall schools opens up all sorts of questions that demonstrate the difficulties for Minnesota’s schools…. Continue Reading
Supt. Gronseth is heading down for a second interview today March 27, 2017 Winona’s first impressions of its supt. candidate finalists. Continue Reading
Locker Searches March 26, 2017 There are some subjects that it would be better for School Board members to discuss at School Board meetings than reading about for the… Continue Reading
Yesterday in threadbare detail March 26, 2017 Yesterday I finished a couple more chapters in my 1920 book, did my Sing thing and then attended the Clayton Jackson McGhie Dinner at… Continue Reading
School Maintenance – another gift of the Red Plan March 24, 2017 Today’s DNT readers learned that we are negotiating to get an acceptable offer to sell Nettleton School. Selling our empty schools was always part… Continue Reading
Keeping one’s perspective while confronting local and national crisis March 23, 2017 Tonight I plan to attend a fun event at Denfeld, its annual Speech “Concert.” This will be easier for me because Claudia will be… Continue Reading
Rolling seven March 20, 2017 Sunday the DNT had a story with the pros of a Seventh Hour Day and the many caveats and fears being thrown out to… Continue Reading
When 87% of Duluth’s 9th graders had the reading skills to function as adults March 20, 2017 I can’t find DNT’s “Bygones” section in today’s online paper but it reported that on this day 20 years ago: “About 81% of Duluth… Continue Reading
“Rustling my paperwork” March 17, 2017 Here’s Loren Martell’s take on that last school board meeting and, in particular, my reaction to the suprise reconsideration of retaining Kevin Rupp’s law… Continue Reading
Friends in Strange Places – How I meant to start March 10, 2017 Where did the beginning of the last post go? I just discovered I copied all but the first page of it from my computer… Continue Reading
Friends in strange places March 9, 2017 The Duluth School Board is and ought to be paranoid about voters who distrust it. We should be especially concerned about driving more of… Continue Reading
“All animals are equal but… March 8, 2017 …some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell Animal Farm I read this in high school. Apparently, Orwell’s observation is every bit as… Continue Reading
Busy Monday March 7, 2017 This is another one of those “where do I begin” posts. Unlike yesterday which was busy from 9AM till 9:30PM I only have two… Continue Reading
Foresight, what might have been, and temper tantrums March 3, 2017 I slaved off-and-on from 5 AM until midnight yesterday to whittle nonsense riddled old posts from 700 offenders to about 80 left today. It’s… Continue Reading
I write a pretty good letter March 2, 2017 I’m back to 2009 posts in my apostraphe replacement labors. I just read my letter endorsing four candidates for the school board in 2009… Continue Reading
How things looked to our School Board… March 2, 2017 …before anyone toted up the damage they were doing. I’ve been taking a trip back through time looking at old posts with the nonsense… Continue Reading
Today – the bad and the ugly March 2, 2017 An email I sent to the School Board and Superintendent and the DNT’s reporter today: Superintendent and fellow board members, This is my formal… Continue Reading
