{"id":3851,"date":"2011-07-28T09:24:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2017-02-28T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:28:15","slug":"do-trib-editors-ever-do-the-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3851","title":{"rendered":"Do Trib editors ever do the math?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only ask because their glowing endorsement of Dr. Foster has some intriguing numbers, to wit:<\/p>\n

Dr. Foster’s Illinois district had a reported 3,200 students and 415 staff.<\/p>\n

The Duluth District has 9,000 students and 2,000 staff.<\/p>\n

The math I have in mind is long division, something I had difficulty with in the fifth grade. Thank God for hand calculators.<\/p>\n

In Illinois Dr. Foster had 3,200 students divided by 415 staff or 7.7 children per public employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Duluth Dr. Foster has 9,000 students divided by 2,000 staff or 4.5 children per public employee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s a bit of a discrepancy here. I wonder at the implications. Did the Trib editorial Board notice?<\/p>\n

I think this discrepency takes on even more significance since Dr. Foster has previously expressed concern <\/a> about Duluth’s very large class sizes. <\/p>\n

“Foster said one concern he sees already is the high numbers of class sizes in the district and their effect on student’s learning.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Considering we have a lot fewer children per staff member this must indeed be very puzzling to him. I’m puzzled by it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I only ask because their glowing endorsement of Dr. Foster has some intriguing numbers, to wit: Dr. Foster’s Illinois district had a reported 3,200…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","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=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20382,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/20382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}