{"id":3361,"date":"2004-07-29T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2004-07-29T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T21:49:09","slug":"damned-with-faint-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=3361","title":{"rendered":"DAMNED WITH FAINT PRAISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering that TN has pretty crappy homeschooling laws, I&#8217;m not particularly impressed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chattanoogan.com\/articles\/article_53481.asp\">this testimonial<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this year, Rep. Wood announced he would be retiring after 28 years of service in the State Legislature. Rep. Wood has been a pioneer in the field of home school education, sponsoring legislation formulating home school policy that many states have since used as a model, it was stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>IIRC, TN is the only state that mandates homeschoolers take the state accountability tests, a requirement that is routinely ignored. (see comment from Kay Brooks in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cobranchi.com\/archives\/002741.html\">this thread<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering that TN has pretty crappy homeschooling laws, I&#8217;m not particularly impressed with this testimonial: Earlier this year, Rep. Wood announced he would be retiring after 28 years of service in the State Legislature. Rep. Wood has been a pioneer in the field of home school education, sponsoring legislation formulating home school policy that many [&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\/3361"}],"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=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}