{"id":81369,"date":"2022-04-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81369"},"modified":"2022-03-30T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:55:12","slug":"can-the-center-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81369","title":{"rendered":"Can The Center Hold?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not one of those conservatives that bags on teachers as his default setting.  My mother&#8217;s parents were teachers.  My dad was a great teacher.  My little sister teaches.  Three out of four of them voted or vote GOP.  Teachers are as individual as anyone else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, as an example, when bad cops &#8211; corrupt sergeants, mobbed-up detectives, thumpers on patrol, sadists in squad cars &#8211; emerge, the question pops up; why don&#8217;t the good cops do something about the bad cops?  Why does the &#8220;thin blue line&#8221; seem to believe standing with a bad cop is more important than good civilians?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; let&#8217;s take that (perfectly valid) logic and apply it to teachers.  Why aren&#8217;t the good ones able to do something about <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/megan-fox\/2022\/03\/29\/florida-teacher-says-shell-break-the-law-to-keep-secrets-about-sexuality-from-parents-n1585274\">teachers like this<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question is only partly rhetorical. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one of those conservatives that bags on teachers as his default setting. My mother&#8217;s parents were teachers. My dad was a great teacher. My little sister teaches. Three out of four of them voted or vote GOP. Teachers are as individual as anyone else. Now, as an example, when bad cops &#8211; corrupt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81370,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81369\/revisions\/81370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}