{"id":16025,"date":"2016-04-08T22:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T03:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16025"},"modified":"2016-04-08T23:29:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T04:29:59","slug":"fallout-from-the-no-central-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16025","title":{"rendered":"FALLOUT FROM THE NO CENTRAL SALE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bprNcie7DE?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A week ago Friday I was annoyed to watch WDSE&#8217;s Almanac North which covered the Board&#8217;s decision not even to negotiate a possible sale of the Central site with the Duluth Public Schools Academy. I was annoyed because the vote was a 4 &#8211; 3 vote and the station only invited Board members who voted on one side &#8211; the majority. I&#8217;ll let you watch and see how well these spokesmen acquitted themselves. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight I turned on the program in its last six minutes and just caught one couple&#8217;s reaction to the majority&#8217;s side. It was articulate and unsympathetic.<\/p>\n<p>That was true of three letters in the Duluth News Tribune today as well. The decision is a week old and its not blowing over. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/readers-views\/4004763-readers-view-school-board-wrong-not-sell-central-edison\">The first<\/a> begins: Why can\u2019t the Duluth School Board do something right for a change? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/readers-views\/4004765-readers-view-school-board-decision-does-not-represent-constituents\">The second<\/a> makes this observation: District 709\u2019s \u201cCommunity Vision\u201d clearly states the district will \u201cinclude all voices in our community, provide schools that serve the entire community, (and) utilize school facilities as a shared resource for all.\u201d From a community perspective, by not accepting the offer for Central, the district ignored a large part of what it says it stands for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/readers-views\/4004769-readers-view-recall-board-members-opposed-central-sale\">The third<\/a> threatens: The four School Board members who voted against selling the Central High School site should know that there is a movement happening to research the process of recall elections and to recall them (\u201cCentral High property offer rejected,\u201d April 1).<\/p>\n<p>This has been researched before in Duluth. The great irony to me is that our legislature decided to protect local politicians from the voters between elections but that a hundred years ago they put in statute a law that allows school board members (not City Councils or County Boards) to remove an annoying Board member on the most vague of charges. Its a law not unlike the old vagrancy laws which the US Supreme Court has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalhomeless.org\/publications\/crimreport\/casesummaries_3.html\">many times<\/a> ruled unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p>Duluth voters have long memories. The Duluth School District is strapped for cash. This will not be forgotten any time soon to the peril of our youngest community members.<\/p>\n<p>I just discovered that the Trib has another three letters criticizing the Board&#8217;s Central decision lined up for tomorrow&#8217;s paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago Friday I was annoyed to watch WDSE&#8217;s Almanac North which covered the Board&#8217;s decision not even to negotiate a possible sale&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=16025"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16033,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16025\/revisions\/16033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}