{"id":18850,"date":"2014-09-26T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18850"},"modified":"2014-09-26T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:00:27","slug":"hope-for-high-schoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/26\/hope-for-high-schoolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for high schoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well now, this is encouraging. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/09\/denver_area_students_walk_out_of_school_to_protest_censored_history_curriculum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Teenagers commit civil disobedience<\/a> to protest a proposed new history curriculum that would de-emphasize strife and civil disobedience:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, I know that school curricula have always been political playthings. I came through <del datetime=\"2014-09-26T16:51:00+00:00\">prison<\/del> school in one of those &#8220;shut up and obey&#8221; eras. Learning only the positive, patriotic, authority-respecting version of history and &#8220;civics&#8221; was oppressive and dishonest &#8212; and led anybody with a brain to distrust people who felt such a need to hide reality. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, the propaganda of &#8220;my day&#8221; was about as oppressive and dishonest as all politically driven schooling inevitably is, whether &#8220;right&#8221; or &#8220;left.&#8221; Curricula have swung in all manner of weird directions since then. <\/p>\n<p>And yeah, yeah, I know the answer is <i>get rid of government schooling<\/i>. But in a country that was born in defiance of law and authority, I still can&#8217;t help but think this is a smile-worthy development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well now, this is encouraging. Teenagers commit civil disobedience to protest a proposed new history curriculum that would de-emphasize strife and civil disobedience: Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay. Yeah, yeah, I know that school curricula have always been political playthings. I came through prison school in one of those &#8220;shut up and obey&#8221; eras. Learning only the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/26\/hope-for-high-schoolers\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hope for high schoolers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}