{"id":21776,"date":"2017-05-09T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21776"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:28:43","slug":"whew-national-teachers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21776","title":{"rendered":"Whew! National Teacher&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I lead the title of this post &#8220;Whew&#8221;? Because in a school board member&#8217;s blog National Teacher&#8217;s Day should not go unremarked on and <em>for this school board member<\/em>, seeing today&#8217;s Google&#8217;s animation was just one more of a half dozen things for me to remark upon. Its not quite the straw that will break my back but I feel its weight.<\/p>\n<p>If it was national school board day it would be more like that Woody Allen snippet from his spoof on Tolstoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073312\/\">Love and Death<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5ObycvN3DA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a certified, if not certifiable, school board member I have license to use this clip in remembrance of that other wit, <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8698\">Mark Twain&#8217;s, toast to school boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BTW &#8211; I saw this movie when I was in college and I busted a gut with this gag. Until I just googled it I hadn&#8217;t seen it since. It still a good gut buster.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter, a teacher, who was just awarded her Masters degree in education a couple days ago, shared this thoughtful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/cognoscenti\/2017\/05\/02\/no-perfect-teacher-sydney-chaffee?utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=npr&#038;utm_term=nprnews&#038;utm_content=20170507\">appraisal of the &#8220;superteacher&#8221; <\/a>on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p>Word has it that one of the candidates for the school board this fall comes from the ranks of teaching. I hope this teacher doesn&#8217;t find themselves falling from a pedestal and into a Woody Allen spoof come January. And today&#8217;s Trib was full of stories about the Duluth School Board which hints of an idiot&#8217;s convention. I&#8217;ll add a couple of anecdotes while I&#8217;m at it starting with my apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I lead the title of this post &#8220;Whew&#8221;? Because in a school board member&#8217;s blog National Teacher&#8217;s Day should not go unremarked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21776"}],"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=21776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21780,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21776\/revisions\/21780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}