{"id":11676,"date":"2014-09-20T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11676"},"modified":"2014-09-22T05:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:51:36","slug":"what-jefferson-said-about-equal-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11676","title":{"rendered":"What Jefferson said about equal treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent email correspondent thanked me and asked me how I make it though school board meetings like <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11657\">our last one<\/a>. On Fri., Sept 19 I explained how:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I get through the meeting because folks like you give me some hope that I may be an exception to <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=Mark+Twain+idiot\">Twain&#8217;s appraisal<\/a> of school boards. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My correspondent replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, you can throw back at Mern with his insistence of kids filling out the same form with Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s quote: <\/p>\n<p>There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later she emailed one more gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the signature of all of my district emails was another quote by George Evans to remind people our students are not little conforming robots: <\/p>\n<p>Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.<br \/>\nGeorge Evans <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent email correspondent thanked me and asked me how I make it though school board meetings like our last one. On Fri., Sept&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11693,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions\/11693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}