{"id":312,"date":"2003-03-25T23:23:34","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-10-24T23:28:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T03:28:46","slug":"no-child-left-behind-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"No Child Left Behind, no.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;ll never forget the first time I heard George W. Bush, in the &#8217;00 Presidential Campaign &#8220;debates&#8221;,<\/strong> describe a vision of a national education policy in which &#8220;no child is left behind&#8221;. At the time, I didn&#8217;t think much of it beyond noting the Bush campaign&#8217;s total lack of original ideas in their theft of a slogan from an educational nonprofit&#8217;s PSA that appeared on TV in the 1970s &#8212; and a Liberal educational nonprofit, at that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-313\" title=\"nclb_color550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nclb_color550w.jpg\" alt=\"nclb_color550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"1215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nclb_color550w.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nclb_color550w-226x500.jpg 226w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nclb_color550w-271x600.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, by the time Iraq War 2.0 kicked off, we&#8217;d heard plenty about Bush&#8217;s vision for No Child Left Behind, and large numbers of parents could be heard commenting to the effect that if this is what President Chimp has in mind, then they&#8217;d prefer that their children be &#8220;left behind&#8221;. Needless to say, the sickening carnage of the US bombing of Iraq in the first six weeks of the war had given us a whole new meaning for the slogan &#8220;No Child Left Behind&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"No Child Left Behind no.1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/newwar\/nclb_color.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 645k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll never forget the first time I heard George W. Bush, in the &#8217;00 Presidential Campaign &#8220;debates&#8221;, describe a vision of a national education policy in which &#8220;no child is left behind&#8221;. At the time, I didn&#8217;t think much of it beyond noting the Bush campaign&#8217;s total lack of original ideas in their theft of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,9],"tags":[12,1456,102],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-iraq","category-war-and-peace","tag-bush","tag-iraq","tag-no-child-left-behind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}