{"id":68,"date":"2002-05-28T17:32:47","date_gmt":"2002-05-28T12:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/68"},"modified":"2002-05-28T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2002-05-28T12:32:47","slug":"the-latest-in-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/68","title":{"rendered":"The latest in a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in a disturbing trend&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbaypressgazette.com\/sports\/archive\/sports_4206418.shtml\">School officials inspect yet more teenage girls&#8217; underwear<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Excuse me?  Nobody needs to gawk at <u>my<\/u> teenager&#8217;s bra.  Between the panty inspection episode, this bra thing, random blood and\/or urine tests, Ritalin being forced on kids or they get kicked out of school, and &#8220;feel good&#8221; grading where you get credit even if you answer wrong because damn it, you tried, I&#8217;m wondering if we&#8217;re going to end up homeschooling.  Schools are snakepits as it is, and all this crap lately is exacerbating the situation.  We spent a lot of money on this house because it&#8217;s in the &#8220;right&#8221; school district.  I just hope it lives up to its reputation.<\/p>\n<p>School officials do not have the right to arbitrarily 1) look at your intimates; 2) diagnose your kids with ADD; 3) randomly search your locker or bags; 4) require arbitrary drug testing; 5) ask you if you have guns at home; or 6) force you to pray (or not to pray, as the case may be).  All of these things happen anyway.  It&#8217;s a travesty, because kids don&#8217;t know any better, and they&#8217;re taught to trust grownups.  Kids may not question Teacher digging through their backpacks.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, I can see where school officials might get the misguided notion that they have to raise kids.  (Some) parents aren&#8217;t taking responsibility for the actions of their children.  They don&#8217;t get involved and ask questions and nose into things.  Don&#8217;t be a friend to your kids.  Be a parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in a disturbing trend&#8230; School officials inspect yet more teenage girls&#8217; underwear. Excuse me? Nobody needs to gawk at my teenager&#8217;s bra. Between the panty inspection episode, this bra thing, random blood and\/or urine tests, Ritalin being forced on kids or they get kicked out of school, and &#8220;feel good&#8221; grading where you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}