{"id":712,"date":"2006-03-03T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=712"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:25:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:25:19","slug":"is-we-educating-our-children-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/03\/03\/is-we-educating-our-children-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Is We Educating Our Children Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is We Educating Our Children Good? – The New Editor<\/a><\/p>\n

Reuters went on to report that “just 28 percent of respondents could name more than one of the five freedoms listed in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment — about the same proportion that could name all five Simpson family members or could recall the three judges on Fox TV’s top-rated ‘American Idol.'”Some of the survey’s respondents actually thought “the right to drive and the right to have pets” were listed in the Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good grief. I have a hard time believing these sort of stories, because I certainly got a good education out of my public schools… but I’m beginning to wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Reuters went on to report that “just 28 percent of respondents could name more than one of the five freedoms listed in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment — about the same proportion that could name all five Simpson family members or could recall the three judges on Fox TV’s top-rated ‘American Idol.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-bu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":809,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/10\/28\/taxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":712,"position":0},"title":"Taxes","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"You might want to watch this - It's about taxes, specifically the United States Federal Income Tax - and how it may not be legitimate. 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