{"id":17805,"date":"2016-09-21T15:07:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17805"},"modified":"2016-09-22T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:30:09","slug":"17805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17805","title":{"rendered":"Two emails to the School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news of additional offers by other school entities to buy our white elephant closed schools is ripping a scab off yet again. This is part of an email to which I responded &#8220;I agree:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The purpose of my letter today is to once again express my support for sale of old Duluth school buildings to buyers in ANY industry,  including , and especially, other educational entities.I have been continually disappointed by &#8216;board policy&#8217; to deny these sales, and feel heartily that doing so is fiscally irresponsible. As Board Members, you are good-faith stewards of the District&#8217;s financials; how can you in good faith walk away from a sale  of a depreciating, unused asset which you have been &#8211; for several years now &#8211; trying to sell?  Your policy on this issue is akin to cutting off your nose to spite your face.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In another email about overcrowded class sizes linked to an <a href=\"http:\/\/nepc.colorado.edu\/files\/pb_-_class_size.pdf\">erudite column<\/a> on the limitations of large classes I answered thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank you for sharing this. At present there is no easy solution to this because more teachers mean more revenue and our tap is shut off. We can shift a little from one set of employees to another but the bond payments for the recent Red Plan steals millions of dollars out of our budget every year. I am extremely upset about this.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course selling a few old buildings might allow us to hire more teachers&#8230;&#8230;.but for the Board majority that is out of the question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news of additional offers by other school entities to buy our white elephant closed schools is ripping a scab off yet again. This&#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\/17805"}],"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=17805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17807,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805\/revisions\/17807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}