{"id":153,"date":"2008-03-28T09:37:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-03-28T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:37:41","slug":"just-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Just one thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a cool editorial <a href=\"http:\/\/kristof.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/27\/one-class\/index.html?ref=opinion\">here<\/a> about different programs in Chicago schools that keep kids engaged.   <\/p>\n<p>While I whole-heartedly agree with the premise &#8212; if school kids have one thing they look forward to, be it computers, music, sports, comic books, or one great class, they&#8217;ll perform better &#8212; there&#8217;s a false note in the opening paragraphs:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nIn most communities, students attend school every day because they are convinced that educational achievement is essential to their future success.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons why kids go to school &#8212; socializing, parental pressure &#8212; but future success?  That feels like an adult category that kids will make a nod towards without really buying it.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a cool editorial here about different programs in Chicago schools that keep kids engaged. While I whole-heartedly agree with the premise &#8212; if school kids have one thing they look forward to, be it computers, music, sports, comic books, or one great class, they&#8217;ll perform better &#8212; there&#8217;s a false note in the opening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just one thing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-2t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}