{"id":10576,"date":"2014-02-20T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10576"},"modified":"2014-02-23T05:19:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T10:19:16","slug":"oops-never-did-edit-that-last-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10576","title":{"rendered":"Oops, never did edit that last post…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…as if I have to tell my loyal readers that. The road to hell……..<\/p>\n

I think I’ve had no fewer than three posts in mind every day since I stopped posting regularly after the election. The problem is that if I’m not careful I could end up causing more harm as a new school board member than good and that would be profoundly disturbing. Trust is a very hard thing to reestablish and I can assure my loyal readers that the rather cavalier way I have of explaining what I see and how it strikes me could put my fellow board members in a sour mood. That would not be helpful to anyone.<\/p>\n

In time I will likely grow more confident about trust issues and be back to my old blogging self.<\/p>\n

Good news like today’s<\/a> will help. Key sentence:<\/p>\n

\n“Last year, the Duluth school district [dropout] rate was 74.9 percent, a change from the previously reported number of 67 percent. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact that distressing 67% figure was one of the top ideas I wanted to post about. Lining all of us school board members up against a wall ans shooting us for it did not seem all that unreasonable. Maybe we can even keep improving and get to the 90% goal that the state has set for us. I’m pretty sure we achieved it ten years ago when I stepped down from the Board. According to the story ten years worth of graduation data has been gathered together by the state. I hope Duluth’s Administrators have access to it because I’d like to know when and where we went wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…as if I have to tell my loyal readers that. The road to hell…….. I think I’ve had no fewer than three posts in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576"}],"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=10576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10580,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576\/revisions\/10580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}