{"id":26,"date":"2009-09-04T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T21:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-09-04T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T21:06:37","slug":"a-long-first-couple-of-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/2009\/09\/04\/a-long-first-couple-of-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"A long first couple of weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Morningside we are often spoiled in that we start with a short week of classes, have a long Labor Day weekend, and then one more short week of classes before we get into the M-F drill.\u00a0 Because Labor Day is late this year, we had our first full week right away, and BOY were people feeling it.\u00a0 Both Faculty and Students alike were complaining.\u00a0 But I have managed to get most of my important work complete so that I have little grading to do over the long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The other issue this week that has irked me is that some school districts are caving into what I believe to be conservative paranoia about Obama&#8217;s scheduled web cast to US school children next week.\u00a0 I have recently heard that the Grand Forks, ND system will not be showing it&#8230;.I will not be surprised if districts here also cave.\u00a0 Much too bad because the message will be an important one&#8230;.challenge yourself, get an education, and become a productive member of society.\u00a0 How is this a bad thing.\u00a0 Our country has become too polarized and perhaps we need to get parents who DO want their children to hear this message call into the schools!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Morningside we are often spoiled in that we start with a short week of classes, have a long Labor Day weekend, and then one more short week of classes before we get into the M-F drill.\u00a0 Because Labor Day is late this year, we had our first full week right away, and BOY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}