My Budgeteer letter

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,

About the author

Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty