{"id":2490,"date":"2017-03-07T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2017-03-08T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:24:34","slug":"big-vs-small-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"Big vs. small decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening reflection: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no difference between small decisions and big decisions when it comes to morality.\u201d  True or false?  Defend your position.   <\/p>\n<p>Circle is a struggle these mornings.  I\u2019m gaining some traction by calling\/texting every child who is late and\/or absent.  I\u2019m gaining more traction by grading the short writing reflections that we use to start our conversations.   It\u2019s a tough balance, though, trying to get engagement because it\u2019s worth thinking about these questions while simultaneously managing what has evolved into a disciplinary matter.   <\/p>\n<p>Either way, we got where I hoped we\u2019d get pretty quickly: one brilliant person arguing that there are just decisions and small decisions all pave the road for big decisions and another brilliant person arguing that we cannot compare things like murder and what you eat for breakfast.   Can we draw a moral equivalence between all actions? Or is it enough to drive towards an awareness about how all of your small decisions flow into your larger decisions?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening reflection: \u201cThere\u2019s no difference between small decisions and big decisions when it comes to morality.\u201d True or false? Defend your position. Circle is a struggle these mornings. I\u2019m gaining some traction by calling\/texting every child who is late and\/or absent. I\u2019m gaining more traction by grading the short writing reflections that we use to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big vs. small decisions<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-2016_2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-Ea","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","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=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}