{"id":1023,"date":"2007-08-25T23:59:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T04:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2007-08-25T23:59:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T04:59:48","slug":"a-fair-vote-a-student-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A fair vote&#8221; &#8211; a student writes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s School Board packet of information which is sent to both School Board members and candidates for the Board contained Johnson Control&#8217;s proposal which only reached Board members hands two weeks after it was presented to the State and this letter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Duluth Public School District,<\/p>\n<p>I am ***** *****. I will be a sixth grader at Woodland Jr. High this year. I graduated from Elementary School at Lowell Music Magnet Elementary School, which I have to say, is a great, great school and I enjoyed all of my years there.<br \/>\nI am writing to you for two reasons. One is that I think it&#8217;s really sad that Lowell is losing some of their music programs. Those music programs gave a lot of intelligent students the opportunity and freedom to play the instruments of their choice. It gave them something to be proud of. I think Lowell deserves some extra support to keep their programs running. They try very hard doing fundraisers, working with, and around the students when needed.<br \/>\nOne other reason I am writing you is something you probably can&#8217;t do anything about. But I think Duluth should be able to vote on the Long Range Facilities Plan. I was looking forward to going to Central High School. My older two siblings went there. And of what I heard, it is a very good school, and I think Duluth has the right to vote on it. After all, we are a part of the city and it does effect us.<br \/>\nI talk to my father about this and what he thinks about it, and he thinks it&#8217;s a lot of money the city is taxing him. He thinks of it as you figure you need to re-model\/re-build schools when he wants to build a new house which he also can&#8217;t afford.<br \/>\nI know I may be just an eleven year old going on twelve, not knowing and understanding everything, but that&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s very clear and makes sense, a fair vote. These are just some reasonable thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>***** *****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s School Board packet of information which is sent to both School Board members and candidates for the Board contained Johnson Control&#8217;s proposal which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}