{"id":2534,"date":"2004-02-24T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2004-02-24T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2004-02-24T19:22:47","slug":"foxy-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2534","title":{"rendered":"FOXY LADY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Sorry &#8217;bout that)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tim Haas for pointing me to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,112370,00.html\">terrific column<\/a> by Wendy McElroy.  Just a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> My purpose is not to dispute with parents who send their children to public schools. I believe the system is a brutal failure, but parents must decide for themselves. I advocate extending alternatives far beyond the typical private versus public school debate, and even beyond homeschooling.<\/p>\n<p>Apprenticeships, experiments like Montessori and the School of Living, self-guided education, mentoring\u2026 The cost of public education is not measured in tax dollars alone. A universe of educational possibilities has been obstructed by the attempt to enforce a government monopoly over how, where, when, and what children learn. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ll definitely want to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,112370,00.html\">whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sorry &#8217;bout that) Thanks to Tim Haas for pointing me to this terrific column by Wendy McElroy. Just a taste: My purpose is not to dispute with parents who send their children to public schools. I believe the system is a brutal failure, but parents must decide for themselves. I advocate extending alternatives far beyond [&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\/2534"}],"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=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}