{"id":13142,"date":"2015-03-25T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13142"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:52:02","slug":"rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13142","title":{"rendered":"MAJ 1 &#8211; Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say much more about our closed meeting yesterday than the Duluth News Tribune <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/3707300-duluth-school-board-expels-two-denfeld-students\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The School Board expelled two students as the story says. It follows on the heals of a troubling incident that made the front page of the Trib several days running. Draw any connection you wish. I will say that the school board asked almost every question that I think the public is asking. By virtue of being Board members we had our questions answered. We were concerned with justice. For my part I mentioned that in the early days of plane hijacking people in airports who joked about hijacking a plane were carted off.<\/p>\n<p>We were concerned that there be some redemption possible. Our school leaders assured us that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/restorative-justice-resources-matt-davis\">restorative justice<\/a> would be employed. That&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been enthusiastic about for a number of years although I&#8217;m not convinced we are as well practiced in it in ISD 709 as we should be.<\/p>\n<p>The School Board unanimously agreed with the Administration&#8217;s response and went in to vote on our public resolution to accept the expulsions described. The Denfeld band was setting up to give us a little Music in the Schools concert so we shooed them out for five minutes to keep them uncontaminated from the unpleasantness.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever our failings that may have helped lead up to tonight I think we acquitted ourselves well this night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say much more about our closed meeting yesterday than the Duluth News Tribune reported. The School Board expelled two students as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,122,35,91],"tags":[123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142"}],"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=13142"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13192,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions\/13192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}