{"id":10285,"date":"2013-10-28T16:27:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2013-10-28T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T22:12:27","slug":"10285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10285","title":{"rendered":"Save Kids, Starve Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2878\/10543812473_b25053d9c9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw the first of these lawnsigns a few days ago and could barely read it as I zipped by at 25 mph. I got the first line and attached this post&#8217;s title to the message right away. Screwing kids is, of course, not what the lawnsign is meant to get across. But that&#8217;s what will happen if voters heed the message. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got 40 kids in classes today. If the first question levy fails we will have to cut 2% of the District&#8217;s current budget. On its face that could be 40 teachers. Here&#8217;s how I got that number. Divide the average teacher&#8217;s salary (<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10013\">as outlined<\/a> by recently retired DFT President Frank Wanner) of $61,000 into 2.5 million dollars (2 percent) and you get 40.98 teachers. <\/p>\n<p>This is probably too simple but there is not a lot less we can cut besides labor which constitutes 80% of our operational costs. Whatever it is we cut 2.5 million is equal to 40 teachers. So I interpret the sign to mean Save kids, Starve schools. It could just as easily be Save Kids, Layoff Teachers. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m far from wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the first of these lawnsigns a few days ago and could barely read it as I zipped by at 25 mph. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285"}],"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=10285"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10292,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions\/10292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}