{"id":8,"date":"2010-02-04T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2018-04-10T17:03:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:03:32","slug":"who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Who thinks this is a good idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, honestly:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,584758,00.html\">North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s crap like this why I spend way too much money each year making sure my kids are not in a government school.  There are a lot of parents out there who will say, &#8220;Well, that wouldn&#8217;t happen in *my* kid&#8217;s public school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>Are you willing to bet your future on it?  Are you willing to bet your kid&#8217;s future on it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I guess once the government edu-ma-cates a new crop of people, who won&#8217;t understand the concepts behind the American revolution (<strong>Liberty!!  Freedom!!<\/strong>), who won&#8217;t understand that the Second Amendment is <strong>not<\/strong> about hunting, and that the First Amendment applies to everyone equally, that the job of ruling a proletarian populace becomes much, mcuh simpler.  And the chances of a revolution are almost nil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, honestly: North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons. Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,4],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dbm","tag-education","tag-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltabravomike.com\/wp35\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}