{"id":27311,"date":"2016-01-07T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27311"},"modified":"2016-01-07T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T22:28:13","slug":"what-in-the-world-is-happening-in-our-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27311","title":{"rendered":"What In The World Is Happening In Our Schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not an article about Common Core<\/a>. This is an article about common sense. Fox News<\/a> posted an article today about an incident in a high school in Maine<\/a>. In today’s world, students are encouraged to do community service<\/a>. I think that is a really good thing, but there do need to be some parameters around what qualifies as community service.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

A public high school<\/a> in Maine was caught red-handed trying to recruit students to work on Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign<\/a> as a \u201ccommunity service opportunity\u201d \u2013 without the knowledge or consent of parents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Students at Marshwood High School<\/a> in South Berwick<\/a> received an email from the Clinton campaign \u2013 urging them to sign up for positions as unpaid \u201cfellows\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHillary for New Hampshire<\/a> is looking for smart, energetic winter fellows who are committed to winning the New Hampshire primary<\/a> for Hillary Clinton,\u201d read the email from a campaign staffer. \u201cEveryone working on the campaign now started off as a fellow at some point so it is a great way of getting a different skill set whilst helping an important cause.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tim and Elita Galvin were furious that their teenage son had received the solicitation \u2013 calling it \u201cdisingenuous and sneaky.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy son didn\u2019t appreciate being targeted by anybody via his school email for a political campaign,\u201d Mrs. Galvin told me. \u201cI\u2019ll be honest \u2013 he\u2019s not a fan of Hillary Clinton to begin with. He\u2019s done his homework and he doesn\u2019t like her.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the students had received emails from all of the political campaigns and were asked to choose one, that might be a good lesson in civics. However, this seems to be another example of Hillary Clinton ignoring obvious rules–evidently the school staff person who forwarded the email did not \u201cadditional information regarding this community service opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have not objection to schools encouraging civic involvement–they just need to be balanced in their approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not an article about Common Core. This is an article about common sense. Fox News posted an article today about an incident in a high school in Maine. In today’s world, students are encouraged to do community service. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[712,1457,321,1795],"class_list":["post-27311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-new-hampshire","tag-new-hampshire-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27312,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311\/revisions\/27312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}