{"id":19422,"date":"2017-02-15T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=19422"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:46:41","slug":"19422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=19422","title":{"rendered":"The DNT&#8217;s take on school leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DNT Editorial today was longish and reasonable. You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/our-view\/4218085-our-view-gronseths-job-hunts-no-benefit-duluth-district\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll only include my remarks as they were reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Count Duluth School Board member Harry Welty among those wishing Gronseth good luck in his job hunts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(He) has a lot to offer any school district, and I told him I wish him well whether he remains our superintendent or seeks new experiences and challenges elsewhere,&#8221; Welty, one of the three School Board members who has been &#8220;less than positive,&#8221; said in a statement this week to the News Tribune Opinion page. &#8220;I don&#8217;t begrudge Superintendent Gronseth the chance to consider a new superintendency. It is rare for school leaders to anchor themselves to a single district for their entire career, although it is obvious Bill has deep ties to our community. He tells me his roots in Duluth go back to the 1890s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As for &#8220;positivity&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;It&#8217;s often overrated. Witness Hillary Clinton&#8217;s SNL Avatar Kate McKinnon in October of last year at the 3:30 mark &#8211; &#8220;I think I&#8217;m going to be President!&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton Debate Cold Open - SNL\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-nQGBZQrtT0?start=127&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DNT Editorial today was longish and reasonable. You can read it here. I&#8217;ll only include my remarks as they were reported: Count Duluth&#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\/19422"}],"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=19422"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19428,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions\/19428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}