{"id":2885,"date":"2004-05-10T06:35:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T06:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2004-05-10T06:35:48","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T06:35:48","slug":"lifes-hard-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"LIFE&#8217;S HARD CHOICES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the title of a <i>Charolotte News-Observer<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/mld\/observer\/news\/opinion\/8630075.htm\">editorial<\/a> about homeschoolers not being allowed to play on the g-school teams.  It&#8217;s pretty good.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An arrangement more hospitable to home-schooled students would be worth considering, but it would be complex, controversial and time-consuming. School officials, already up to their eyeglasses in complex, controversial matters, can&#8217;t be blamed if they&#8217;re not eager to take it on.<\/p>\n<p>One lesson students (and parents) must learn is that sometimes life involves either\/or choices. At present, this is one of them. Students who are enrolled in a public school have access to its classes and activities. Students who aren&#8217;t, don&#8217;t. To some it may not seem fair, but it&#8217;s a fact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the title of a Charolotte News-Observer editorial about homeschoolers not being allowed to play on the g-school teams. It&#8217;s pretty good. An arrangement more hospitable to home-schooled students would be worth considering, but it would be complex, controversial and time-consuming. School officials, already up to their eyeglasses in complex, controversial matters, can&#8217;t be blamed [&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\/2885"}],"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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}