{"id":3468,"date":"2011-01-19T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2017-03-01T08:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:58:33","slug":"a-treasure-trove-of-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3468","title":{"rendered":"a treasure trove of BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While looking up recent DNT coverage of the School District I also read this snippet I&#8217;d missed earlier in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/187873\/publisher_ID\/36\/\">this editorial<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Improved communications were credited, in part, for a relatively smooth adoption of a teachers&#8217; contract in July, nearly a full year ahead of a deadline set by the state. Also, when Dixon first came to the Duluth district, principals were competing against each other. &#8220;Now,&#8221; the superintendent said, &#8220;we&#8217;re at more of a place where we want to survive together at a high level; we&#8217;re working together.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some reactions:<\/p>\n<p>Who said the principals before Dixon were competing with each other? There wasn&#8217;t all that much backbiting going on for the eight years I served on the Board between principals. Toward the end of Supt. Almanza&#8217;s tenure a couple of them took public swipes at him but they weren&#8217;t engaged in internal fighting. Dixon made sure to promote at least one of Almanza&#8217;s critics shortly after his arrival. Was Dixon buying the principal off?<\/p>\n<p>As for the teachers, He gave them a settlement a year early that the District couldn&#8217;t afford. Another buy off?<\/p>\n<p>And the Board members who greased the skids for Dixon got <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3467\">a silent $2,000 annual increase<\/a> too.  Of course, they gave it to themselves but I&#8217;m sure with Dr. Dixon&#8217;s encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>When he was in Faribault this was also one of Dixon&#8217;s methods of persuasion. Higher salaries for his cooperative intimates and subordinates. Money talks or, in the case of our school board, silences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking up recent DNT coverage of the School District I also read this snippet I&#8217;d missed earlier in this editorial: Improved communications were&#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\/3468"}],"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=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20490,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/20490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}