In case you don’t bother to read the DNT’s incredible shrinking Budgie:
In his last Budgeteer column Duluth’s Superintendent, Dr. Keith Dixon, explained how disastrous the Plan B proposal would be should it be adopted.
Dixon has worked diligently for two years to ensure that it would be a disaster. I agree that it would be foolish to set aside the Red Plan now that most of its work is under way. Nonetheless, I will cast a protest vote in favor of Plan B knowing that the vote is non-binding on the School Board.
In fact, if I were to suddenly find myself on the School Board, I too would ignore a positive vote for Plan B.
What’s more, once the Red Plan schools are built, I plan to enjoy them. Some of them will be very nice schools – even though building them resulted in the loss of more than 10 percent of our students and 7 percent of our teachers.
I’ll enjoy them because, for better or worse, they will be my public schools.
I will not forget the duplicity which brought them into existence any more than I will forget that the United State’s Capitol building was built with slave labor before the Civil War.
I worked at the Capitol as a college intern. It is a beautiful building and I was proud to show visitors through its corridors.
Dixon has done his best to poison Plan B because he’ll claim its defeat gives him vindication for stealing our vote on his Red Plan. This is one vote Dixon doesn’t deserve.
Harry Welty
Duluth School Board member, 1996-2004
To the Editor,
