{"id":183075,"date":"2015-03-20T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/20\/charter-schools-and-common-core-in-a-nut-shell\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T23:52:00","slug":"charter-schools-and-common-core-in-a-nut-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/20\/charter-schools-and-common-core-in-a-nut-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter Schools and Common Core in a Nut Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can do no more than quote America&#8217;s Finest News Source, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/department-of-education-study-finds-teaching-these,18461\/\">Department Of Education Study Finds Teaching These Little Sh%$s No Longer Worth It<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">WASHINGTON\u2014The U.S. Department of Education released a comprehensive, nationwide evaluation of American schools Monday indicating that attempts to teach absolutely anything to these little shits is just a huge waste of everybody&#8217;s time.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;We remain committed to providing every student in the country with access to a high-quality education,&#8221; said Education Secretary Arne Duncan, adding that good schools are a key component to the success of American democracy. &#8220;But to be honest, none of that matters. We&#8217;re not talking about promising young scholars here\u2014we&#8217;re talking about a bunch of f%$#ing animals.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve basically flushed $11,000 down the toilet for every single one of these little bastards,&#8221; Duncan continued. &#8220;Not to mention 18 years of my life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is perhaps the most prescient article that <i>The Onion<\/i> has published since January, 2001, when it wrote, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464\/\">Bush: &#8216;Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can do no more than quote America&#8217;s Finest News Source, &#8220;Department Of Education Study Finds Teaching These Little Sh%$s No Longer Worth It: WASHINGTON\u2014The U.S. Department of Education released a comprehensive, nationwide evaluation of American schools Monday indicating that attempts to teach absolutely anything to these little shits is just a huge waste of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1002,1048,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-good-writing","category-humor","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}