If you come to Lincoln Democrat to understand our public schools I must direct you to Karl Schuettler’s demographic analysis of Denfeld’s missing students. It will take more than fancy swimming pools to bring them back.
Its wonderful to see a self described “lazy grad student” explain all the factors that I wrestle with every day concerning the condition of our schools. I wrote to Karl and simply said of his post, “brilliant summation!”
In the long run the whole District’s best hope is all the undeveloped land available out west and a continuing construction renaissance and commercial boom – that and an “inequitable” spending of the District’s resources out west to make up for all the damage we’ve done.