{"id":15276,"date":"2014-10-06T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-two-weeks-of-student-protests-and-a-fierce-2\/"},"modified":"2014-10-06T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:58:23","slug":"after-two-weeks-of-student-protests-and-a-fierce-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-two-weeks-of-student-protests-and-a-fierce-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>After two weeks of student protests and a fierce backlash across Colorado and beyond, the Jefferson County School Board backed away from a proposal to teach students the \u201cbenefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights,\u201d while avoiding lessons that condoned \u201ccivil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law.\u201d But the board did vote 3-to-2 to reorganize its curriculum-review committee to include students, teachers and board-appointed community members. <\/p>\n<p>The Jefferson County schools superintendent, Dan McMinimee, who suggested the compromise, said it represented the \u201cmiddle ground\u201d in a fevered debate that pitted the board\u2019s three conservative members against students, parents, the teachers\u2019 union and other critics who opposed the effort to steer lessons toward the \u201cpositive aspects of the United States and its heritage.\u201d The board members who supported the proposal said they did not want to censor or distort history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/04\/us\/after-uproar-colorado-school-board-retreats-on-curriculum-review-plan.html?mabReward=RI:10&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=Health&amp;region=Footer&amp;module=Recommendation&amp;src=recg&amp;pgtype=Blogs\">After Uproar, School Board in Colorado Scraps Anti-Protest Curriculum &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two weeks of student protests and a fierce backlash across Colorado and beyond, the Jefferson County School Board backed away from a proposal to teach students the \u201cbenefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights,\u201d while avoiding lessons that condoned \u201ccivil disorder, social strife or disregard of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Yo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}