Do over Fallout 1 – Emergency Meeting? April 13, 2016 NOTE. THIS EMAIL IS WRONG. IT REFLECTS MY FERVID IMAGININGS. THE SUPERINTENDENT JUST GOT WORD OF IT AND SENT ME A “LOL” TEXT SAYING… Continue Reading
An email I sent to my fellow board members minutes ago April 12, 2016 Fellow Board members. As the continuing flood of letters to the Duluth News Tribune demonstrates it has been damaging for our District’s reputation to… Continue Reading
Trib letters echo my thoughts, amplify my worries April 12, 2016 The School Board has created new problems which are creating even longer memories. When I first ran for the School Board in 1989 (I… Continue Reading
Repairing the Board’s wounded reputation April 11, 2016 I just watched the first half of Ken Burns biopic on Jackie Robinson on PBS. It is a reminder of the world I was… Continue Reading
Our Better Angels April 11, 2016 Image found here. As my regular readers know I have a thing for Abe Lincoln. No President had a harder row to hoe and… Continue Reading
Another Board member (emeritis) challenges Member Sandstad April 10, 2016 George Balach sent an email to Nora Sandstad today regarding her Op Ed Piece in today’s Tribune. He then copied it to the rest… Continue Reading
How I disagree with Nora April 10, 2016 New readers who have stumbled onto my blog will discover that I am not always fussy about a polished post. I’m a busy man…. Continue Reading
Selling Central, Pro and Con from School Board members themselves April 10, 2016 Alanna Oswald’s pro sale view Duluth School Board Member’s View: Why I voted to sell Central site: Money could have helped bridge gap in… Continue Reading
Its all Greek to me – More Central Fallout April 9, 2016 As I noticed last night there are three more letters to the DNT today. In talking to various folks I know that if the… Continue Reading
FALLOUT FROM THE NO CENTRAL SALE April 8, 2016 A week ago Friday I was annoyed to watch WDSE’s Almanac North which covered the Board’s decision not even to negotiate a possible sale… Continue Reading
More email to the School Board April 7, 2016 I’ve been told repeatedly that I need to let the Red Plan go so that we can “move Duluth forward.” I’m trying to but… Continue Reading
The School Board keeps getting… April 6, 2016 …unhappy email: Dear School Board Members, I am writing to you as my representatives, and voicing my grave dismay and concerns regarding your vote… Continue Reading
Let’s Get Real # 5 – Shooting down Ed MN bullets April 2, 2016 Read the screed Here. Education Minnesota’s bullet point #1 • Edison charter school’s growth ambitions will cost Duluth’s public schools at least $4 million… Continue Reading
Lets Get Real #4 – “Another value of belonging” to the teacher’s union April 2, 2016 Until the President of the Teacher’s Union mass emailed this to her teachers the email coming in to the School Board was running over… Continue Reading
Let’s Get Real # 3 – My deep sigh April 2, 2016 I am done putting my disclaimer on Swords/Plowshares Posts. I did it for 30 posts because I wanted to be sure that new readers… Continue Reading
Let’s Get Real # 2 – Rep. Erik Simonson April 2, 2016 On Fox News Representative Simonson explains how he will introduce legislation to, among other things, require Charter Schools to have publically elected boards just… Continue Reading
Let’s get real #1 – Has that ship sailed? April 2, 2016 This is a sort of a morning-after-the-crisis post. It will be the first of several more posts to come examining the recent nonsense manufactured… Continue Reading
Art corrects the 50/50 count claim April 1, 2016 Art Johnston sent the School Board this email today: Hello School Board, I tabulated the emails that I received that were addressed to all… Continue Reading
First emails this morning April 1, 2016 Last night one of the board members who voted not to negotiate with Tischer Creek made the extraordinay claim that (after reading all) the… Continue Reading
Swords March 31, 2016 This will take some time to compose. No it won’t. I just needed a good night’s sleep to shake off a disappointing night. I… Continue Reading
