{"id":2989,"date":"2006-03-05T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2017-12-21T15:21:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:21:44","slug":"education-story-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/education-story-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Story of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/topstories\/local_story_061104533.html\" target=\"_new\">Overland Students Walk Out In Support Of Teacher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You know it&#8217;s about that geography teacher who helped his students find Germany or the United States on a world map by comparing Bush to Hitler (both liked dogs!  <i>They are just the same!<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care about the story about its grassrootsification of students walking out of class&#8211;hell&#8217;s belles, today&#8217;s students know they won&#8217;t get punished for &#8220;political expression,&#8221; so they go on these little short-term field trips when the cafeteria is out of chocolate milk.  No, I like a story that includes multiple implications for what&#8217;s wrong with our public education system (the teachers, the students, the administration, to name a few) that offers insight like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think he inspires so many students and he&#8217;s a great teacher,&#8221; one student said during the rally. &#8220;I mean he makes people do there work and he makes people care about things.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s so pleasantly wrong with that, I&#8217;m not going to explain it to you.  Ask your fellow alumni from Overland High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overland Students Walk Out In Support Of Teacher. You know it&#8217;s about that geography teacher who helped his students find Germany or the United States on a world map by comparing Bush to Hitler (both liked dogs! They are just the same!). I don&#8217;t care about the story about its grassrootsification of students walking out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18876,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/18876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}