{"id":39003,"date":"2013-10-14T07:31:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39003"},"modified":"2013-10-14T08:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:37:19","slug":"priorities-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39003","title":{"rendered":"Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Schools have time and money to send home\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/oct\/7\/school-mother-your-124-lb-55-daughter-overweight\/\" target=\"_blank\">fat letters<\/a>, whether the kids actually are fat, or not.\u00a0 Part of Michelle Obama\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Move\u201d campaign?<\/p>\n<p>Schools have time and money to run prevention programs about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anoka.k12.mn.us\/education\/components\/scrapbook\/default.php?sectiondetailid=290969&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">cyber-bullying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But schools graduate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintpaulkids.org\/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&amp;SEC=%7b13D4B0A8-9638-47F8-AD69-B1955C1154B7%7d\" target=\"_blank\">little more than half<\/a>\u00a0their students.\u00a0 And how many of them actually know anything, versus got passed along by the system?<\/p>\n<p>Plainly,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/education\/ci_24168814\/st-paul-school-board-oks-1-percent-bump\" target=\"_blank\">schools need more money<\/a>.\u00a0 For the children.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s always worked so well before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Schools have time and money to send home\u00a0fat letters, whether the kids actually are fat, or not.\u00a0 Part of Michelle Obama\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Move\u201d campaign? Schools have time and money to run prevention programs about\u00a0cyber-bullying. But schools graduate\u00a0little more than half\u00a0their students.\u00a0 And how many of them actually know anything, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39003","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=39003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39004,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39003\/revisions\/39004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}