{"id":85259,"date":"2023-06-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85259"},"modified":"2023-06-01T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:24:33","slug":"there-isnt-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85259","title":{"rendered":"There Isn’t Much…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

…about the way high school was when I was a kid that makes me sit up and say “damn, they had the right idea<\/em>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I do <\/em>know that if some students had started a petition saying “we don’t want <\/em>to have graduation at the Civic Center [the only building in town big enough to hold the graduation], so move it or we won’t attend”, the principal – Virgil Buchholtz, who’d been a Marine fighter pilot during World War II – would have settled that quickly and sharply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps it’s not being a teenager. Perhaps it’s having raised teenagers. Perhaps it’s reading some history, and realizing how deeply stupid movements on the macro scale led by “youth” tend to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I wish someone <\/em>in the Chaska\/Chanhassen school district had the same common sense that Mr. Buchholtz had when I read stories like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next week, Eastern Carver County Schools plan to host graduation ceremonies for Chaska and Chanhassen high schools at Eden Prairie\u2019s Grace Church. But this year families are pushing for a change in venue after Chaska High Schooler Eli Frost created a petition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the petition that now has 364 signatures, Frost wrote: “Grace Church has a long history of making derogatory, public statements against the LGBTQ+ community. Further, they do not support divorce even in situations of domestic violence. As a community of students and parents who represent a wide variety of marginalized identities, we must change this venue.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Young Mr. Frost has gotten a lot of facts wrong – go ahead and follow the link to Grace Church’s response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I hope the Chaskahassen schools have a sudden attack of common sense in the next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…about the way high school was when I was a kid that makes me sit up and say “damn, they had the right idea.” But I do know that if some students had started a petition saying “we don’t want to have graduation at the Civic Center [the only building in town big enough to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85259","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=85259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85273,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85259\/revisions\/85273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}