{"id":11710,"date":"2010-07-01T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11710"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:43:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:43:45","slug":"your-education-dollars-at-work-bun-in-summer-school-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11710","title":{"rendered":"Your Education Dollars At Work: Bun In Summer School, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bun’s “history” teacher was out most of the day today, but the substitute wasn’t much of an improvement.<\/p>\n

The first order of business was watching a movie, Right America (Feeling Wronged)<\/em>, made by Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra, about people who didn’t <\/em>vote for Obama. \u00a0 Calling the movie “heavy-handed” and “one-sided” would be a little like calling Nick Coleman “unctuous”; it focuses (like certain leftybloggers) on a thin film of outragous-to-the-point-of-cartoon-y racists: \u00a0even the \u00a0Huffington Post panned \u00a0it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The teacher added after the movie that most people in the documentary were provincial “country folk” who had never seen a black person, and were motivated by racism.<\/p>\n

The teacher handed out a “worksheet” on John Hanson<\/a> – he was black, don’t you know? – and got a quiz on the other five “black” presidents and why they concealed their “blackness”.<\/p>\n

And there was a “worksheet” – I’ll get that out over weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bun’s “history” teacher was out most of the day today, but the substitute wasn’t much of an improvement. The first order of business was watching a movie, Right America (Feeling Wronged), made by Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra, about people who didn’t vote for Obama. \u00a0 Calling the movie “heavy-handed” and “one-sided” would be a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11822,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions\/11822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}