…as if I have to tell my loyal readers that. The road to hell……..
I think I’ve had no fewer than three posts in mind every day since I stopped posting regularly after the election. The problem is that if I’m not careful I could end up causing more harm as a new school board member than good and that would be profoundly disturbing. Trust is a very hard thing to reestablish and I can assure my loyal readers that the rather cavalier way I have of explaining what I see and how it strikes me could put my fellow board members in a sour mood. That would not be helpful to anyone.
In time I will likely grow more confident about trust issues and be back to my old blogging self.
Good news like today’s will help. Key sentence:
“Last year, the Duluth school district [dropout] rate was 74.9 percent, a change from the previously reported number of 67 percent. “
In fact that distressing 67% figure was one of the top ideas I wanted to post about. Lining all of us school board members up against a wall ans shooting us for it did not seem all that unreasonable. Maybe we can even keep improving and get to the 90% goal that the state has set for us. I’m pretty sure we achieved it ten years ago when I stepped down from the Board. According to the story ten years worth of graduation data has been gathered together by the state. I hope Duluth’s Administrators have access to it because I’d like to know when and where we went wrong.
