{"id":162,"date":"2003-11-14T13:42:05","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/cleaning_up_our_schools\/"},"modified":"2003-11-14T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2003-11-14T18:42:05","slug":"cleaning_up_our_schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/cleaning_up_our_schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Up Our Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the issues in America’s educational system today, it’s refreshing to see school administrators are finally getting serious about our real<\/i> problems<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Two high school girls were suspended for sharing a 12-second-long protest kiss, which they say was part of their English class assignment.
\nStephanie Haaser, a junior at River Hill High School, says she jumped on a table during lunch and yelled “end homophobia now” before engaging in the kiss with a female friend.
\nHaaser said her very public display of protest in the form of a kiss was part of an English class assignment that required students to perform a “non-conformist” act.
\n. . .
\nRiver Hill administrators suspended Haaser and her protest partner from school for two days after the Nov. 5 stunt. School officials said the girls were suspended because they disrupted the “orderly operation” of the school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Haaser, who is not gay, doesn’t have a disciplinary record, and had a 4.0 GPA last year, also risks being kicked out of the National Honor Society due to her suspension. [UPDATE: According to this story<\/a>, Katherine Pecore, the other girl suspended for the kiss, scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT.]
\nGreat to see that schools are finally cracking down on the real troublemakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all the issues in America’s educational system today, it’s refreshing to see school administrators are finally getting serious about our real problems: Two high school girls were suspended for sharing a 12-second-long protest kiss, which they say was part of their English class assignment. Stephanie Haaser, a junior at River Hill High School, says […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}