{"id":11928,"date":"2010-07-08T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2010-07-08T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T13:58:03","slug":"your-education-dollars-at-work-bun-in-summer-school-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11928","title":{"rendered":"Your Education Dollars At Work:  Bun In Summer School, Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little more wisdom from my daughter&#8217;s State of Minnesota-certified, Minnesota Federation of Teachers accredited teacher:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whitey &lt;3 Meth!<\/strong>: Said the teacher, &#8220;If meth didn&#8217;t exist, there would be no drug law reform, because white peole do meth, and the goverment doesn&#8217;t want white people in jail&#8221;.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t they say the same thing about cocaine 25 years ago?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dumb Cops<\/strong>: Speaking in a cornpone accent: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, man, I&#8221;m just here to beat up black people&#8221;, even though, said the teacher, the cop has no ideas what the laws are.\u00a0 Not to say cops are infallible &#8211; far from it &#8211; but a top-to-bottom racist conspiracy? Hm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slavery Altered The Physical World<\/strong>:\u00a0 &#8220;Hurricanes follow the path of the slave ships&#8221;, apparently as God&#8217;s punishment for slavery.\u00a0 Apparently hurricanes were mostly found in the North Sea before the 1400s as vengeance for the Vikings?\u00a0 I dunno.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slavery Altered Evolution<\/strong>: &#8220;Sharks, to this day, folow the route of the slave ships&#8221;, as a matter of evolutionary adaptation; according to the teacher, sharks &#8220;evolved&#8221; to live in the subtropical trade wind zone because of the centuries of slaves being tossed overboard from slave ships (as opposed to, y&#8217;know, because the sub-tropics are crawling with aquatic life?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone but me thinking &#8220;Hey, good thing he&#8217;s not teaching them Intelligent Design?\u00a0 Whew!&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little more wisdom from my daughter&#8217;s State of Minnesota-certified, Minnesota Federation of Teachers accredited teacher: Whitey &lt;3 Meth!: Said the teacher, &#8220;If meth didn&#8217;t exist, there would be no drug law reform, because white peole do meth, and the goverment doesn&#8217;t want white people in jail&#8221;.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t they say the same thing about [&hellip;]<\/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-11928","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\/11928","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=11928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11930,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions\/11930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}