{"id":2882,"date":"2004-05-09T04:32:54","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T04:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2004-05-09T04:32:54","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T04:32:54","slug":"hey-what-about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2882","title":{"rendered":"HEY!  WHAT ABOUT US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homeschoolers were omitted in the following calculation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OF THE ROUGHLY 50 million children enrolled in American grade schools, all but about 5 million attend government-run public schools. Of those 5 million, approximately 800,000 attend secular private schools. That leaves just 4.2 million who attend the nation&#8217;s religious schools &#8212; only one American child in 12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The piece is an observant Jew&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2004\/05\/09\/making_the_case_for_parochial_schools\/\">response<\/a> to T. C. Pinckney.  It&#8217;s pretty good, and I&#8217;m sure Pinckney would agree with nearly all of it.  But, not this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>T.C. Pinckney, a retired Air Force brigadier general, and Houston attorney Bruce Shortt. Lay leaders in the Baptist church, they have drafted a resolution&#8230; urging the denomination&#8217;s 16 million members to take their children out of public schools and either home school them or send them to <b>parochial schools<\/b>.  [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parochial schools?  In the South?  I think he means private, Christian schools.  I grew up Catholic in SC.  Trust me; you just don&#8217;t want to confuse parochial (i.e., Catholic) schools with the private schools.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the writer is in Boston where the two terms are probably synonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeschoolers were omitted in the following calculation: OF THE ROUGHLY 50 million children enrolled in American grade schools, all but about 5 million attend government-run public schools. Of those 5 million, approximately 800,000 attend secular private schools. That leaves just 4.2 million who attend the nation&#8217;s religious schools &#8212; only one American child in 12. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}