{"id":15398,"date":"2015-10-30T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15398"},"modified":"2015-10-30T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T15:18:11","slug":"ditto-ditto-ditto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15398","title":{"rendered":"Ditto, Ditto, Ditto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another friend sent me a link to Board Member Annie Harala&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/readers-views\/3872009-readers-view-support-van-nett-kirby-and-sandstad\">endorsement letter<\/a> in today&#8217;s Trib for the same three candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15389\">Rosie Loeffler-Kemp endorsed<\/a> in her letter yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>My corespondent noted with some puzzlement that Member Harala didn&#8217;t really offer any reasons why they should be chosen other than that they would continue the Board&#8217;s successful work of the past two years. Its funny but most voters probably only know one thing about what we&#8217;ve done for the past two years. Annie sort of glossed over our best known &#8220;accomplishments&#8221; by writing: &#8220;In spite of public distractions&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sad to say that all our accomplishments did not bring new students to ISD 709&#8217;s schools. Art Johnston sent the following to the Duluth News Tribune two weeks ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A year ago, there were headlines on your front page that the Duluth Public School had an increased enrollment of  &#8220;10&#8221;.  We now have had a decrease in enrollment of -228.    What&#8217;s happening to enrollment in Duluth Public Schools should qualify as news, particularly  for this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all newspapers that I&#8217;ve seen in the last month have been reporting on enrollment in their prospective schools.  As far as I can tell, our Duluth public school have had one of the largest decreases of enrollment in the state. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect that our student loss was precipitated in part by the &#8220;distractions&#8221; Annie mentions&#8230;.the ones that started when her sharp eyes saw a &#8220;shove&#8221; that was not verified by the person alleged to have been shoved. How like-minded (<em>to Annie<\/em>) school board members would help us get past the &#8220;distractions&#8221; is hard for me to fathom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another friend sent me a link to Board Member Annie Harala&#8217;s endorsement letter in today&#8217;s Trib for the same three candidates Rosie Loeffler-Kemp endorsed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15398"}],"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=15398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15400,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15398\/revisions\/15400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}