{"id":485,"date":"2010-03-15T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=485"},"modified":"2010-03-15T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:36:58","slug":"bill-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a huge fan of Huffington Post &#8212; have the phone app and read it occasionally &#8212; but Bill Maher&#8217;s comedic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bill-maher\/new-rule-dont-fire-the-te_b_497554.html\">piece<\/a> on firing teachers works pretty well.  While there&#8217;s some objectionable content, his summary of the American response to the Rhode Island teacher firings is spot on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But isn&#8217;t it convenient that once again it turns out that the problem isn&#8217;t us, and <strong>the fix is something that doesn&#8217;t require us to change our behavior or spend any money<\/strong>. It&#8217;s so simple: Fire the bad teachers, hire good ones from some undisclosed location, and hey, while we&#8217;re at it let&#8217;s cut taxes more. It&#8217;s the kind of comprehensive educational solution that could only come from a completely ignorant people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also love that he cites Whitney Houston, whose line about children being the future (Sexual Chocolate), I&#8217;ve explicitly banned my students from using. Which seems silly but before I started mentioning it, I&#8217;d get three to four essays a semester where students knowingly or unknowingly referred to this song.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a huge fan of Huffington Post &#8212; have the phone app and read it occasionally &#8212; but Bill Maher&#8217;s comedic piece on firing teachers works pretty well. While there&#8217;s some objectionable content, his summary of the American response to the Rhode Island teacher firings is spot on: But isn&#8217;t it convenient that once again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Maher<\/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":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","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-7P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}