When you publish a paper and are not beholden to all the powers that expect you to print happy news you can be pretty tough. That’s the case with the Zenith which appears to have kept some of the old Duluth News Clippings that quote Red Plan critics.
Its a brutal story and quite accurate. The only thing that could improve it is making it so long no one would read it.
Here’s a sample:
These problems now facing the District were predicted by Red Plan critics years ago—overcrowded classrooms, teacher layoffs, curriculum reductions, students leaving the district, cost overruns, tax increases, the dwindling reserve fund, and difficulties with the sale of unused property, such as Central High School.
“The plan will bankrupt the district and rob children of adequate programming for generations,” then–School Board candidate Deb Anderson wrote in a letter to the Duluth News Tribune on October 7, 2007.
“That shiny new classroom will be small comfort to the English teacher with 36 kids in her class,” Harry Welty wrote in November 2008 on his blog, LincolnDemocrat.com. Little did he know then that some class sizes are now approaching 50 students.
Well Yeah, The News Tribune can be tough but usually only on unmitigated racists and local doctors who have botched too many medical procedures. Screwing up the education for 10,000 Duluth students is a lower tier offense.
