{"id":3102,"date":"2010-07-07T19:22:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:22:50","slug":"all-to-the-tune-of-a-hickory-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3102","title":{"rendered":"All to the tune of a hickory stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my invite to the Teacher&#8217;s Union screening a week ago. I&#8217;ve never been endorsed by the teacher&#8217;s union. I won&#8217;t be this time either so there is very little reason not to post<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/07\/06\/the-education-debacle-of-the-decade\/\"> the link <\/a>a critic of the public teacher&#8217;s unions sent me about a successful program killed by the teachers in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>In this case teacher&#8217;s unions trumped Black Americans who have rallied to the program&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n<p>In reply I sent him a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128359983\">the story<\/a> this afternoon on National Public Radio to demonstrate that his implication that Obama&#8217;s Education Secretary kowtowed to the teacher&#8217;s union was in error.<\/p>\n<p>BTW The Union&#8217;s leadership that will endorse Roger Reinert will do so to save face despite the unforgivable way they have sacrificed so many Duluth teachers for Dr. Dixon&#8217;s brick and mortar. Normally I&#8217;d tell the teacher&#8217;s union I would be honored to have their endorsement. This year &#8211; not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my invite to the Teacher&#8217;s Union screening a week ago. I&#8217;ve never been endorsed by the teacher&#8217;s union. I won&#8217;t be this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,92,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102"}],"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=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}