{"id":16047,"date":"2016-04-09T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16047"},"modified":"2016-04-09T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T21:05:28","slug":"ive-just-spent-four-hours-replying-to-district-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16047","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve just spent four hours replying to District email &#8211; or has it been five?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And then my Buddy sent me this email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From: &#8220;Your Buddy&#8221;<br \/>\nTo: &#8220;Harry Welty&#8221;<br \/>\nCc:<br \/>\nSent: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:58:29 -0500<br \/>\nSubject: Its all Greek to me \u2013 More Central Fallout | lincolndemocrat.com<\/p>\n<p>Harry:<\/p>\n<p>From that \u201cthird letter\u201d, at  <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16043\">http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16043<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I see a School Board doing everything possible to squash competition and options for students.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t notice that letter when I circulated comment about the other two letters this morning.  However, as I remember, considering your previous reactions to me, particularly about vouchers, you haven\u2019t been exactly gaga about competition for ISD 709.<\/p>\n<p>[your Buddy]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>True Buddy,<\/p>\n<p>I just spent four hours replying to email. I have to pick my fights and right now vouchers are off the table. I have only grudgingly supported them where school districts are in disarray and even there with qualifications. <\/p>\n<p>I am not and never have been a supporter of pure unbridled competition. Its too much like <em>nature red in tooth and claw<\/em>. I do support our Charter schools although I was not elected to look out for them first. In fact, this would be a good example of cooperation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;if our teacher&#8217;s union wasn&#8217;t so pissy about it.<\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then my Buddy sent me this email: From: &#8220;Your Buddy&#8221; To: &#8220;Harry Welty&#8221; Cc: Sent: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:58:29 -0500 Subject: Its&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047"}],"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=16047"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16052,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions\/16052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}