{"id":9536,"date":"2013-09-08T16:44:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9536"},"modified":"2013-09-08T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T21:48:49","slug":"after-sitting-on-his-thumbs-while-a-perfectly-good-leg-was-amputated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9536","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the future and saying nothing to the community."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting email that was just sent to me about four years too late. What did the DFT get in return for staying silent?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Greetings D.F.T.  Bargaining Unit Members:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Today I sent the following e-mail to the Superintendent and School  Board on behalf of the Executive Board.  In addition to the rationale  contained in the e-mail, we are very concerned about the integrity and  continuation of our middle school program and contract language supporting  it.  We are also concerned about the number of students we have lost this  year to surrounding school districts: <\/p>\n<p>The Executive Board of  the Duluth Federation of Teachers  at our meeting held Monday, <strong>December 7,  2009<\/strong>, passed a motion to request that the Duluth School Board re-consider the  site for the western middle school giving special consideration to utilization  of the Central High School site.  This motion was passed after  consideration of a number of factors.   Primary among these was the  possibility of an imbalance in student enrollment between the eastern and  western high schools should present trends continue.  We feel that using  the Central site for the middle school would be most likely to encourage  families who are now choosing to send their children to other school districts  and those who may be intending to choose the eastern middle school to have their  children attend a middle school at the Central site.  This would create a  middle school student body which would be likely then to move in greater numbers  to the western high school.  We also considered the affect on the central  part of town of not having any secondary building and understand fully community  concerns in that regard.  Another consideration would be the reduction in  property values which has taken place since initial decisions were reached and  the likelihood of there being little or no financial advantage to sale of the  Central site.  Selling the Central site is something that is not easily  understood by a large segment of our community no matter how well the rationale  is presented.  No doubt you too have heard many times members of the public  say they are in favor of the Long Range Facilities Plan but believe it would be  a shame to lose the Central site. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you. <\/p>\n<p>Frank Wanner,  President<br \/>\nDuluth Federation of  Teachers\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting email that was just sent to me about four years too late. What did the DFT get in return for staying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,17,102,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536"}],"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=9536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9541,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions\/9541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}