Foresight vs. Hindsight

Foresight = LincolnDemocrat Feb. 10, 2010:

Dr. Dixon made it sound like the programming he was willing to trim was not all that important. I’d like to know why, if his proposed cuts aren’t that important, they haven’t already been made. For crying out loud the story makes clear that the District is facing a $4.5 million dollars shortfall. That’s a terrific obstacle for any new spending.

This was one of several posts that popped up in my search engine for “Red Plan calamity:”

Hindsight = Duluth News Tribune Dec. 21, 2011:

The body blows just keep landing against the Duluth school district, don’t they?

Education leaders in our community long have been absorbing criticism and outright vehemence over a long-needed yet controversial new-construction and school building-upgrade plan. The angst grew deafeningly louder in June when the price tag to local taxpayers leaped from $296 million to $311 million….

…Also this month, news broke that the district’s once-robust $14.7 million reserve fund, its money in the bank, had shrunk by more than half to about $6.8 million. Board Clerk Tim Grover understated the feelings of many in the district when he called the news “distressing.” In a letter to the editor on today’s page, former Superintendent Mark Myles goes further, calling the spend-down “shocking,” even if the district is blaming it largely on an inability to sell surplus school property.

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