{"id":4748,"date":"2005-03-24T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T10:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2005-03-24T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T10:16:05","slug":"i-got-a-driver-and-thats-a-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=4748","title":{"rendered":"I GOT A DRIVER, AND THAT&#8217;S A START"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.siouxcityjournal.com\/articles\/2005\/03\/24\/news\/iowa\/500f24b5463bb15986256fce001423f6.txt\">This<\/A> amuses me no end:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Home-schooled students could take drivers&#8217; education from a parent or guardian under a bill passed Wednesday by the Iowa House.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the bill, mainly Democrats, said <B>drivers&#8217; education is too important to leave to uncertified teachers<\/B>.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mary Mascher, D-Iowa City, blasted the bill for giving home schooled students special status.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This bill is discriminatory. It allows one group of parents to do something another group isn&#8217;t allowed to do,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Don Shoultz, D-Waterloo, questioned whether parents, especially those who haven&#8217;t taken drivers&#8217; education themselves, would be able to effectively teach how to drive safely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roll that last sentence around your mind for a few moments and you&#8217;ll be laughing too.<\/p>\n<p>(I actually do agree it&#8217;s discriminatory &#8212; all parents should be able to teach it themselves. When it comes down to it, don&#8217;t they already?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This amuses me no end: Home-schooled students could take drivers&#8217; education from a parent or guardian under a bill passed Wednesday by the Iowa House. [&#8230;] Opponents of the bill, mainly Democrats, said drivers&#8217; education is too important to leave to uncertified teachers. Rep. Mary Mascher, D-Iowa City, blasted the bill for giving home schooled [&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\/4748"}],"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=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}