{"id":6930,"date":"2012-04-09T10:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2017-02-27T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T01:09:38","slug":"this-is-from-a-student-in-our-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6930","title":{"rendered":"This is from a student in our schools&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;not me and my idle speculations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/227967\/group\/opinion\/\">Reader&#8217;s View<\/a>: Duluth school district hasn\u2019t kept its promises<br \/>\n<em>If ISD 709\u2019s plan was to make kids leave the district for Hermantown, Proctor or the Superior districts it\u2019s doing one great job!<\/em><br \/>\nBy: Morgan Nygaard,<\/p>\n<p>If ISD 709\u2019s plan was to make kids leave the district for Hermantown, Proctor or the Superior districts it\u2019s doing one great job! Cutting more teachers and increasing class sizes again? That\u2019s the big plan for reducing the deficit? In case no one from the district has noticed, it really isn\u2019t working , at all (\u201cMore students per classroom, fewer hours per day,\u201d March 21).<\/p>\n<p>The Duluth school district promotes 21st-century schools, smaller class sizes, more learning opportunities, college-level classes, advanced-placement classes and more offerings in general. Oh, and as I recall, my personal favorite, the district claimed it would continue to provide all this without teacher cuts. It hasn\u2019t done any of it.<\/p>\n<p>As a Central High School junior last year and a Denfeld High School senior this year, I have gone through the heart of change. What\u2019s really been accomplished: increased class sizes, fewer class offerings, 50 or more teachers cut, and the loss of emotional ties many kids had with their respective schools.<\/p>\n<p>It has been an absolute joke. The district has zero credibility or trust from the Duluth people.<\/p>\n<p>Keep proposing tax levies for more and more money and we\u2019ll just keep shooting them down like before. Like on Nov. 8, when Duluth said \u201cno,\u201d \u201cno\u201d and \u201cno\u201d to three levy questions. Obviously, Duluth is done emptying its pockets for the district, which has lost our trust and is going to have one hard time getting it back.<\/p>\n<p>I may only be a senior in high school, but if I could give one piece of advice it would be this: When you start caring more about how decisions affect kids than how they affect money then maybe Duluth will give you another chance.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Nygaard<\/p>\n<p>Duluth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;not me and my idle speculations. Reader&#8217;s View: Duluth school district hasn\u2019t kept its promises If ISD 709\u2019s plan was to make kids leave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930"}],"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=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20179,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions\/20179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}