{"id":793,"date":"2004-05-16T22:27:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T03:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/california-classrooms-may-be-truth-free-zones\/"},"modified":"2004-05-16T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T03:27:30","slug":"california-classrooms-may-be-truth-free-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/california-classrooms-may-be-truth-free-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"california classrooms may be truth-free zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>maybe this is building on a theme,  but it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=5156595\">seems<\/a> that three high-school teachers in california have been suspended for &#8220;displayed,  or allowed students in their class to display, video footage or sound from the execution of Nick Berg by Islamic militants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>well, as much as i hate the concept of chopping someone&#8217;s head off as a way to send a message, i think the message we&#8217;re sending with this &#8220;keep your facts out of our classrooms&#8221; concept is a little worse in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>teenagers might not be the most brilliant, articulate or philosophical demographic on the planet, but even people who actively avoid mass media knew about the berg incident.  it&#8217;s there.  it&#8217;s real.  we better be able to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>behold, wisdom from the mouths of babes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=5156595\">reuters<\/a> California Teachers Suspended Over Execution Images<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;You can watch things about the Holocaust. Why can&#8217;t you watch this?&#8221; one 14-year-old student was quoted as asking. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>maybe this is building on a theme, but it seems that three high-school teachers in california have been suspended for &#8220;displayed, or allowed students in their class to display, video footage or sound from the execution of Nick Berg by Islamic militants.&#8221; well, as much as i hate the concept of chopping someone&#8217;s head off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}