{"id":315,"date":"2003-05-25T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-26T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=315"},"modified":"2009-10-24T23:47:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T03:47:02","slug":"no-child-left-behind-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"No Child Left Behind, no.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As the more transparently sleazy, odious, and second-rate features of President Junior&#8217;s &#8220;No Child Left Behind&#8221; program<\/strong> became known, the sarcastic nicknames began to fly &#8212; among them my own favorites, &#8220;No Child Left Unrecruited&#8221; and &#8220;No Child Shall Escape&#8221;. Indeed, no child shall escape the State&#8217;s program of psychiatric drugging, captive-audience mass-marketing, military recruitment and political indoctrination. Education? Who said it?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-316\" title=\"nclb4part550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nclb4part550w.jpg\" alt=\"nclb4part550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nclb4part550w.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nclb4part550w-88x150.jpg 88w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nclb4part550w-294x500.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By this time, as well, military recruiters&#8217; encroachment into high-school campuses had markedly increased, along with more aggressive tactics ranging up to and including harassment, threats, and telephone harassment of students&#8217; families at home. Student resistance escalated in kind, including the blockading of military recruiting office in downtown DC; in at least a couple of cases, young men in the process of enlistment got the message and backed out on the spot.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"No Child Left Behind, no.2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/nclb4part\/nclb4part.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image, <\/strong><\/a>903k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the more transparently sleazy, odious, and second-rate features of President Junior&#8217;s &#8220;No Child Left Behind&#8221; program became known, the sarcastic nicknames began to fly &#8212; among them my own favorites, &#8220;No Child Left Unrecruited&#8221; and &#8220;No Child Shall Escape&#8221;. Indeed, no child shall escape the State&#8217;s program of psychiatric drugging, captive-audience mass-marketing, military recruitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,10,8,9],"tags":[12,103,102],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-liberty","category-media","category-right-wingnuts","category-war-and-peace","tag-bush","tag-education","tag-no-child-left-behind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}