Sarah, I know you read my blog occasionally just like some of Dr. Dixon’s chief advocates do. I think you did Let Duluth Vote a disservice in today’s Plan B story by not explaining that the $40,000 the District has already spent on our Plan B was to stymie it not help Let Duluth Vote develop it. Lawyers are expensive.
Of course, asking the District to explain how it spent this money might not have been worth the time you would have spent waiting for the District to account for it. The District is slow to give out any info which might anger or inform the public. There’s a request in now, its been outstanding for several weeks, for the number of Duluth Students who have transferred to neighboring schools under “open enrollment.” Those are students we have to pay other districts to teach. Its not clear how many hundreds of students it is but the loss to our District dwarfs the piddly $250,000 Board members were groaning about spending to develop Plan B.
Evidently the District’s all too fallible lawyers must have advised the District to stop fooling around after the Attorney General and Secretary of Education told them to proceed with developing a Plan B for a non binding referendum. Even so, the quarter million isn’t all meant to develop our alternative. According to Board Chair Grover some of it will be used to fight the voters off in court. How dare they want their voting rights back.
At anytime over the past two years the Board could have asked the voters for their approval for their grandiose building plans. Evidently it never occurred to them that some idealists might object to the theft of their votes. King George never expected his subjects in the colonies to fight an eight year war over unjust taxation either. Tea anyone?
