Reading the words of Red Plan supporters is tiresome. For a year and a half they’ve brought very little new to the debate. The best Dixon can do here is patronize the people who have pointed out the flaws in his plan:<\/p>\n
We spent thousands of hours… <\/p>\n
We got input from the community…<\/p>\n
We’re providing schools for the Twenty First Century…<\/p>\n
The critics can’t decide what should be done…<\/p>\n
The Board is acting courageously….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I called Dixon an old fraud a few posts ago and that is frankly too kind. One of the new Board members elected to get him out of Faribault said of him that he is a “chronic liar.” <\/p>\n
I’m sure Mimi relished quoting me from my blog to show how common I was by calling the Ordean site crappy. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want them to protest the pending vote to gut Ordean two years early at a cost of $51 million for a crappy high school.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> If I were to rewrite that sentence today a whole slew of more useful words spring to mind – “deathtrap” for instance. <\/p>\n
Forty years ago this City dug deep to put its most historic high school on a promontory overlooking the western-most point of the Earth’s most magnificent chain of fresh water Lakes. For ten million measley dollars, less than a tenth of one year’s school budget, they will sell it off to cram half our children on a postage stamp paved over because Dr. Dixon knows eminent domain is unpopular. Then rather than use this site for a western middle school he’ll spend another $45 million to build one on another rock outcrop below rail road tracks that will regularly fill the premises with dust from taconite pellets. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile the pristine Ordean site that currently harbors a breeding eagle pair will be paved over.<\/p>\n
If that’s what we can expect from the Twenty-first Century the Amazon Jungle, the Polar Ice Caps and life as we know it is in for a pretty tough ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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