I am posting this letter to the DNT from a parent on the crimes committed by this school board against children in full:
The purpose of the Red Plan was, I believe, to move from three high schools to two and to save money on facilities in order to save programs. Thus Central High School will be closed.
I have a son at Central.
A middle school also was closed. Woodland became the eastern, instead of the city’s central, middle school. Classes are larger this year with approximately 35 students in each. The school is crowded. It is a more difficult year.
I know. I have a daughter at Woodland.
Grant Language Magnet School is a wonderful school, but now the magnet program is being cut. And I have a daughter at Grant.
My two older children went to Lowell Music Magnet. It, too, was a wonderful program. Even now it has a reported waiting list of 300 children. But of course it is being cut.
I don’t know how to grieve all these losses.
Jim Johnson
Duluth
