{"id":2690,"date":"2009-10-27T08:32:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2009-10-27T08:32:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:32:51","slug":"finally-a-teacher-speaks-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2690","title":{"rendered":"Finally a teacher speaks II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s commentary by teacher Tom Tusken was a pro red plan piece. Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/150181\/\">letter to the editor <\/a>by Kris Osbakken is &#8220;unconscionable.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>(For those who read this seven days from now after the DNT dumps the link to this letter I should explain. The letter mentions half a dozen &#8220;unconscionable&#8221; consequences of the Red Plan. Too many kids in classes; dumping kids in an overcrowded middle school etc. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed that a teacher would finally speak out publicly about the grim stories I&#8217;ve been hearing second hand for the last six or seven months. Kris is a substitute teacher so that lack of a permanent position may give her the courage to speak out. I recognize her name. In one more example of the strange bedfellows aspect of Red Plan politics I&#8217;m pretty sure Kris was once a candidate for public office that I poked some fun at in a letter to the editor when I supported her opponent. If I was a good journalist I&#8217;d call and confirm that but I&#8217;m not that ambitious at 7:45 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s commentary by teacher Tom Tusken was a pro red plan piece. Today&#8217;s letter to the editor by Kris Osbakken is &#8220;unconscionable.&#8221; (For those&#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\/2690"}],"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=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}