{"id":2664,"date":"2009-10-21T13:48:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T18:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2009-10-22T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:16:51","slug":"frank-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"Frank Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the link to Frank Wanner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/149605\/group\/Opinion\/\">laughable column<\/a> in today&#8217;s DNT. <\/p>\n<p>Frank is the President of the Duluth Teacher&#8217;s Union; has been since the birth of Christ. He lauds Dr. Dixon, who a large number of his union members fear, because Frank is obliged to for the sake of union solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>He lauds the process of designing the LRFP which he mentions he participated in although, from reports I heard, he himself rarely attended meetings of the Citizen&#8217;s Committee.<\/p>\n<p>He says these new schools will be great for our children&#8217;s education but I can assure you that in the old days he would have railed at the implication in this assurance that teachers were somehow secondary to the process of education.<\/p>\n<p>His claim that critics of the Red Plan have stooped to mean spirited personal criticism is for me the funniest assertion of all. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/DuluthSchools%20Page\/Frankfrank\/Frankwords.htm\">Its the pot calling the kettle black.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When he was a young man full of piss and vinegar and leading the teachers of Duluth to their first and only strike he would have rolled his eyes at such a column. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the link to Frank Wanner&#8217;s laughable column in today&#8217;s DNT. Frank is the President of the Duluth Teacher&#8217;s Union; has been since the&#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":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}