I often hold off publishing blog posts if I think they will impede progress or throw a monkey wrench. Sadly biting my lips or my finger tips has rarely led to anything good for the children of the Duluth Schools. My Christmas armistice was a bust.
Although writing about the last thirty minutes of the recent school board meeting shouldn’t be any worse than than the actual discussion that took place I’ll hold off dropping my ordnance for the time being. The courts are very busy right now with ISD 709 so I’m zipping my lips again.
I had time over the past couple days to proof read my 2500 words worth of bomb posts but I kept my attention on my new office. I’m in heaven but the forty years worth of personal documents I’ve collected are finally in a single location and I’ll be culling and organizing them for years to come. For now I’m content to group them together by subject matter. I was astonished to find Snow sculpting files in several different locations. There may be even more to come but already they are six inches thick. I put them in my Mother’s old art file drawers which I hauled single-handedly up three flights of stairs with the dolly I bought just for that purpose.
Today I stole Claudia’s rocker and took it upstairs to put in a reading corner. I took a picture of it and put it on Facebook to taunt her. She’s in Florida and can’t do anything about it for the next twelve days. As I wrote in Facebook “Bwaahhahahaha.”
If I resume my previous critique of the School Board it will soon swing from the mild stuff of the past to ghost pepper hot. That would be too bad because our children deserve a much better school board than they are currently saddled with. I said much the same thing in my interview on WDIO television calling on the Superintendent to play referee. To my surprise Claudia who saw it (because she heard one of her Grandsons might be in it) wrote to me to say she really liked what I said. She might not have been as supportive if she’d heard what I told the reporter and cameraman after the camera was turned off. I’m a Hoover Dam full of flood water right now and I haven’t been suffering the West’s draught.
I’ve got a summer ahead with almost nothing to do but campaign, write and open the spillways. Or I could start writing a book about my family. That would only happen if the School Board changes course and discovers its humanity and stops burning through our taxpayer’s money for a unjustified vendetta.
Oh, and if you were going to look at that last thirty minutes of this week’s school board meeting but haven’t gotten around to it you may not find it. The District’s youtube was hacked by a fellow who has been on the majority’s case for several months now. The District took the video down to scrub his contribution off.
If its not put back I now have a privately taken video of the meeting that I’ll have to learn how to video edit and post to the Internet. I finally have time to build a website to defend Art and that’s where I’ll put it.
Oh, and regardless of what else happens I really have to write about the St. Francis School District. Holy cow! It holds some important lessons for Duluth.
