{"id":314,"date":"2007-01-11T08:16:50","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T14:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/01\/11\/common-sense-is-so-1950\/"},"modified":"2007-01-11T08:16:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T14:16:50","slug":"common-sense-is-so-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Is So 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul school kid <a href=\"http:\/\/kstptv5.com\/article\/stories\/S21143.html?cat=1\">kicked off a bus<\/a> for speaking English:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but after the driver let the kids on, he told them he would not pick them up again. He even said he wouldn&#8217;t take them home that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong left work early Tuesday, forced to pick up her kids from Phalen Lake Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>Her twin girls, 10, and her son, 8, were kicked off their regular school bus. They were told by the bus driver the route is for non-English speaking students only.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was an explanation, of course; it was a bus assigned to all-Spanish and all-Hmong schools.<\/p>\n<p>Ah.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t a mistake &#8211; it was part of an official policy of balkanization!<\/p>\n<p>More on school bureacracy later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul school kid kicked off a bus for speaking English: It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing. Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but after the driver let the kids on, he told them he would not pick [&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-314","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\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}