{"id":15251,"date":"2015-10-11T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15251"},"modified":"2017-02-22T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:27:58","slug":"in-case-there-is-any-doubt-who-i-support-for-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15251","title":{"rendered":"In case there is any doubt who I support for School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5736\/22091707795_4203a3917c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today the Trib published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/letters\/3857580-readers-view-oswald-has-proven-her-commitment-education\">my letter <\/a>in support of Alanna &#8211; 201 words. I sneaked an extra one in but didn&#8217;t count to see if they knocked one out to keep it regulation sized:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alanna Oswald was in my classroom when teacher\/astronaut Christa McAuliffe lost her life shooting for the stars. The next year Oswald&#8217;s mother committed suicide. Denfeld&#8217;s teachers wrapped Oswald in a cocoon of caring and launched her, one of the first in her family, to college at Gustavus Adolphus. There was no way Oswald wouldn&#8217;t become a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>I begged Oswald to run for School Board more than a year ago before our board plunged into a year of darkness and dysfunction. Oswald had just accomplished something that outshines everything our entire board has managed to do. She did it as a mom. She got Minnesota&#8217;s Department of Education to clean up Duluth&#8217;s long-neglected curriculum when she discovered that her fifth-grade daughter wasn&#8217;t being taught science or history the same way as children in eastern-Duluth schools. The motive was commendable. Her daughter&#8217;s school was desperate to escape Minnesota&#8217;s lowest state test rankings but did so by jettisoning a complete education. Oswald knows there are better ways to fight poverty.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, I wrote in Oswald&#8217;s yearbook that she was a lot smarter than me. She still is. We need her, I need her, on our School Board.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Welty<\/p>\n<p>Duluth<\/p>\n<p><em>The writer is an At Large member of the Duluth School Board.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Trib published my letter in support of Alanna &#8211; 201 words. I sneaked an extra one in but didn&#8217;t count to see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251"}],"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=15251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19598,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251\/revisions\/19598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}