{"id":1343,"date":"2008-07-16T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T19:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2008-07-16T14:34:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T19:34:16","slug":"when-size-finally-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"When size finally matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Worley sent me an email today after reading the School Board&#8217;s discussion of the proposed Western Middle School and Piedmont Elementary. Kent has vociferously and vainly been pointing out for over a year that the new Ordean High School site will have barely half the 55 acres recommended for a high school. While this complaint has been dismissed by the District as of no great consequence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=70422\">the Trib&#8217;s article <\/a>reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Duluth Superintendent Keith Dixon said the school district would need to acquire the 55 acres north of Wheeler Field off Grand Avenue for the western middle school.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Says Kent: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now, all of a sudden, site size is key criteria in selecting school sites.  It&#8217;s wonderful to see the district responding to these very important considerations finally.  Now, with this finally recognized factor, it is time to re-think what the plan for the Ordean site will do &#8230; and reconsider alternatives.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I say, Don&#8217;t hold your breath Kent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Worley sent me an email today after reading the School Board&#8217;s discussion of the proposed Western Middle School and Piedmont Elementary. Kent has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343"}],"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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}