{"id":375,"date":"2002-06-06T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-06T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2002\/06\/06\/why-am-i-not-surpised"},"modified":"2002-06-06T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-06T04:04:00","slug":"why-am-i-not-surpised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/why-am-i-not-surpised.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I not surpised &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to find that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/resolutions\/01\/01b-69.html\">the NEA thinks homeschooling is awful<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I <i>especially<\/i> love this part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, go ahead and educate your children at home, but you have to do it our way.<\/p>\n<p>I guess they&#8217;re just sore because it&#8217;s now become news when it&#8217;s <b>not<\/b> a homeschooler that wins the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spellingbee.com\/\">National Spelling Bee<\/a>.  (Congratulations to Pratyush Buddiga on that accomplishment.)<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well.  The only thing more I can think to say to this kind of nonsense is to quote my son David:  &#8220;Na na na na boo-boo!&#8221;  Will not!  So there! Can&#8217;t make me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to find that the NEA thinks homeschooling is awful. I especially love this part: Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used. In other words, go ahead and educate your children at home, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-63","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}