{"id":28111,"date":"2019-08-10T22:15:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28111"},"modified":"2019-08-10T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T03:42:00","slug":"illegal-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28111","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Illegal Actions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife read today&#8217;s banner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4605506-Denfeld-High-School-principal-placed-on-administrative-leave\">headline story<\/a> about the Principal of Denfeld being placed on &#8220;Administrative Leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She wondered why Ms. Sconiers was only placed on Administrative Leave six weeks after she hired an attorney to &#8220;investigate&#8221; illegal actions by the District. Goodness Gracious! That sounded pretty suspicious on the District&#8217;s part. Payback maybe????? Then, when I went to replace storm windows at church an hour later one of the crew wondered the very same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Well, writing as the KING of investigating suspicious things about our School District I&#8217;m not overawed that a school principal under fire would want to be the first to fire a shot over the opposition&#8217;s bow. That&#8217;s what her claim of investigating the District is. Its served its purpose well by thowing suspicion on the District&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;a District which <em>I must admit<\/em> has been infamous for bad decision making.<\/p>\n<p>While the public sits back waiting for another shoe to drop I&#8217;ll confess that I&#8217;ve heard rumors going back not six weeks <em>but more like 12 weeks<\/em> that the Denfeld Principal had flown a little too close to the sun with wax wings. Whatever the concerns have been, Ms. Sconiors has certainly turned the tables trust-wise on the Superintendent and his supportive School Board. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in that position myself as a school board member. I just ran across an old letter I saved from the Tribune&#8217;s columnist on high-minded platitudes, Tom Wheeler. <em>(I&#8217;m still awaiting any comment from him about the current President of the United States.)<\/em> Back in 2003 Mr. Wheeler&#8217;s wrote me asking pointed questions about why a paragon of hockey virtue should be relieved of his coaching duties. Coincidentally, that subject will be a chapter in the book I&#8217;m offering for sale to finance my campaign for the School Board.<\/p>\n<p>There will likely be a chapter on race relations as well. And it&#8217;s a chapter that keeps getting bigger and bigger. See <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28101\">the previous post<\/a> to purchase a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife read today&#8217;s banner headline story about the Principal of Denfeld being placed on &#8220;Administrative Leave.&#8221; She wondered why Ms. Sconiers was only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,135],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111"}],"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=28111"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28121,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111\/revisions\/28121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}