{"id":4868,"date":"2005-04-23T08:19:19","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T08:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2005-04-23T08:19:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T08:19:19","slug":"i-knew-it-was-you-freddo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"I KNEW IT WAS YOU, FREDDO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does this <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/opinion\/editorials\/stories\/042305dnedihomeschool.392fac3a.html\">editorial<\/A> (passwords at right, all caps) in support of the Texas bill blogged below remind me of Michael Corleone embracing his brother shortly before the latter&#8217;s one-way fishing trip?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This newspaper supports public education in Texas and encourages creative reform. In that spirit, a bill introduced this week in the House allowing public schools to open doors to home-schooling families is a welcome attempt at updating a vital institution to fit the needs of today&#8217;s students.<\/p>\n<p>The measure, sponsored by Rep. Brian McCall of Plano, would permit home-schooled students to participate in public school classes and extracurricular activities on a pick-and-choose basis. This makes sense. Home-schoolers are taxpayers, too, and should have the opportunity to partake of services offered by their neighborhood public schools.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, this bill would offer parents more options in choosing an educational path for their children. And it would build support for public education among the fast-growing number of home-schooling families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Support, vector for regulation and recapture, whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does this editorial (passwords at right, all caps) in support of the Texas bill blogged below remind me of Michael Corleone embracing his brother shortly before the latter&#8217;s one-way fishing trip? This newspaper supports public education in Texas and encourages creative reform. In that spirit, a bill introduced this week in the House allowing [&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\/4868"}],"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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}