{"id":2030,"date":"2009-04-27T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2017-03-02T18:27:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T23:27:05","slug":"limiting-our-students-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Limiting our student&#8217;s horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elourine Alspach, a retired educator\/guidance counselor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/118714\/group\/Opinion\/\">writes today <\/a>about the jewel called the STC or the Secondary Technical Center. She begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tom Boman&#8217;s common-sense solution for Duluth&#8217;s public school building plan could include another paragraph (&#8220;Take the best of two plans to make a better plan,&#8221; April 12). There is much mention of Central High School&#8217;s vast property, with enough parking and great outdoor facilities, but no one mentions the Secondary Technical Center which shares the Central campus and was built at great taxpayer expense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My son took one of the few classes he valued at the STC. This is true of a great many of the STC students. If education is meant to be an experience which broadens one&#8217;s horizons the STC fits the bill. The Red Plan says it will create two separate STC&#8217;s, one at each remaining high school, but the effect is to limit our students horizons and kill off programming. Its currently being described as a money drain.<\/p>\n<p>This writer isn&#8217;t entirely accurate. Other people have been commenting on STC programs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/118564\/\">Here&#8217;s a nice story <\/a>on one of them from Saturday&#8217;s Budgeteer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elourine Alspach, a retired educator\/guidance counselor writes today about the jewel called the STC or the Secondary Technical Center. She begins: Tom Boman&#8217;s common-sense&#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\/2030"}],"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=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20756,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/20756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}