{"id":2691,"date":"2009-10-27T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2009-10-27T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:44:13","slug":"teach-your-children-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"Teach your children well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/150194\/\">The second letter <\/a>in today&#8217;s Trib is also anti-Red Plan. Actually its anti-Red Planner and its a gem.<\/p>\n<p>The most powerful lessons in life come through personal example. &#8220;Actions speak louder than words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Mr. Cikanek suggests that the values our schools are teaching are betrayed by the actions of the School Board. To the six examples he gives I might add this: A School Board which praises itself for listening to people up until the moment that serious opposition to their planning develops.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cikanek puts it this way in his sixth example:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democracy is not to be trusted. If you want to get business done, bypass ballots. Instead look for a canoe sized loophole and force through an ore ship-sized bond. Dividing a city is an acceptable casualty in winning expediency.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second letter in today&#8217;s Trib is also anti-Red Plan. Actually its anti-Red Planner and its a gem. The most powerful lessons in life&#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\/2691"}],"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=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}