{"id":198,"date":"2002-07-14T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2002-07-14T14:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=198"},"modified":"2002-07-14T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2002-07-14T14:43:02","slug":"another-in-the-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Another in the never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another in the never ending series of WWHS.  In today&#8217;s Wilmington (DE) News-Journal the main Op-Ed is a piece by English teacher Patrick Welsh (sorry, a quick Google News (beta) search yielded nada.  Can anyone provide a link?).  Mr. Welsh seems to be the kind of committed teacher who would just drive conservative parents batty.  The regular contributor to USA Today, in discussing viewing the film <i>Cinema Paradiso<\/i> with his high-school senior students, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Such works sometimes contain distubing imagery, sexually explicit scenes and offensive language- and some would say I was pushing the envelope by choosing &#8220;Cinema Paradiso&#8221;, with its nudity and sex.  But I didn&#8217;t think those scenes were lewd or gratuitous and I thought my students would both be engaged in the movie&#8217;s story and gain from its message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what about what the parents might have thought to be lewd or gratuitous?  When and how exactly did the PS teachers&#8217; <i>opinions<\/i> as to what is proper supercede those of the owners of the schools (i.e., the parents)?  I sometimes think tenure in the PS system is a very bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another in the never ending series of WWHS. In today&#8217;s Wilmington (DE) News-Journal the main Op-Ed is a piece by English teacher Patrick Welsh (sorry, a quick Google News (beta) search yielded nada. Can anyone provide a link?). Mr. Welsh seems to be the kind of committed teacher who would just drive conservative parents batty. [&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":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}