{"id":1940,"date":"2009-04-14T04:19:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:12:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:12:34","slug":"piedmont-parents-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1940","title":{"rendered":"Piedmont parents rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may explain why the <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1898\">Citywide PTSA chair has threatened to send his children to a neighboring school district<\/a>. A recent survey of parents at Piedmont demonstrates astronomical disatisfaction with the Red Plan&#8217;s consequences. From the survey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>If Piedmont merges with Lincoln for the school year 2009 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2010 will you be sending your Child or Children to Lincoln?<\/p>\n<p>Yes &#8211; 48, 37%<br \/>\nNo &#8211; 60, 46%<br \/>\nUnsure 22, 17%<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 22 that said they were unsure 12 named other schools they are interested in. 5 said they were unsure what school they would be going to, while 5 left question 2 blank. If you add the 12 tht named schools and the 5 that were unsure to the total of no&#8217;s, 77 out of 130 surveyed families will not be sending their children to Lincoln. That is 59%.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the whole survey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/piedmontptasurvey.htm\">here<\/a>. Its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\">just one more Red Plan story <\/a>not covered by the Duluth News Tribune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may explain why the Citywide PTSA chair has threatened to send his children to a neighboring school district. A recent survey of parents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940"}],"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=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20773,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/20773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}