{"id":5085,"date":"2005-06-10T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2005-06-10T16:09:20","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T16:09:20","slug":"pc-run-amok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5085","title":{"rendered":"PC RUN AMOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/living\/education\/11858213.htm\">this one<\/a> under &#8220;Gimme-a-break!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Philadelphia School District&#8217;s precedent-setting decision to make African American history a requirement for high school graduation sparked passionate reaction yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can see offering it as an elective, especially in majority-minority Philly.  But a requirement!?  Call me racist, if you like, but I think mandating a full year of African-American studies is just asking for trouble.  And I&#8217;m not the only one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It might build hostility and anger among groups, too. It has just as much of a chance of doing that,&#8221; said Chester Finn of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Foundation in Washington, a frequent critic of how social studies is taught in American schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;It&#8217;s not fair. Why should it be singled out black? Why can&#8217;t it be Polish, or German or Mexican?&#8221; asked Theresa Barraza, whose daughter is a second grader at Anne Frank School. &#8220;I&#8217;ll put her in a Catholic school.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t the Anne Frank school mandate a year of Jewish-American studies?  Or how &#8217;bout Italian-American studies in South Philly?  They could do a whole week of Rocky movies.<\/p>\n<p>Just another reason to home educate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this one under &#8220;Gimme-a-break!&#8221; The Philadelphia School District&#8217;s precedent-setting decision to make African American history a requirement for high school graduation sparked passionate reaction yesterday. I can see offering it as an elective, especially in majority-minority Philly. But a requirement!? Call me racist, if you like, but I think mandating a full year of [&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\/5085"}],"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=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}