This week’s January reorganizational meeting of the Duluth School Board had twenty-five speakers in the audience ready to give the Board a piece of their minds. Normally no one addresses the Board during these short meetings but the Board arranged to meet with the crowd after the meeting.
I was there because I had heard, as others apparently had, that we would be able to address the Board. When I learned that I couldn’t speak I decided to stay only until a new Board Chair was elected. I leaned over to my seatmate and told them what was painfully obvious to me – that Tim Grover would be the next Chairman.
No other board member is up to the challenge temperamentally or otherwise. Tim was treated like a traitor while he worked with LDV but now all the other Board members and the Superintendent are depending on him to keep the Red Plan on track. I don’t have to tell you how this makes most members of Let Duluth Vote feel.
Just how hard it will be for Tim comes across in this statement that he gave to the Trib: brief mention of the change of leadership the next day. He said:
“We have a lot of work to do, particularly in the next few months,†Grover said. He noted the pending board discussions on a revised construction schedule and boundary line for the long-range facilities plan. “There are a lot of pieces that still need to be put together.â€
Remember Humpty Dumpty?
