{"id":28954,"date":"2013-04-09T21:52:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/09\/prodding-poor-parents-to-get-even-more-involved\/"},"modified":"2013-04-09T21:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:52:36","slug":"prodding-poor-parents-to-get-even-more-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/09\/prodding-poor-parents-to-get-even-more-involved\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Prodding poor parents to get even more involved is really just a callous disregard for the fact that parental involvement\u2013while ideal\u2013is a luxury that not all families can afford.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/04\/06\/tying-welfare-benefits-to-school-grades-teaches-the-wrong-lesson\/\">Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC<\/a> after Tennessee proposed a bill that would take money away from the state\u2019s poorest families if their children fail to make the grade in school.<\/span> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.tumblr.com\/\">msnbc<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>It is also a callous disregard for the way the state&#8217;s most fail-happy school system is organised: many Nashville Metro schools are filled with children whose bus rides are several \/hours\/, because in the name of &#8216;desegregation&#8217;, those children are bused across the county to attend school. A household with two working parents does not have the time to be involved with their childrens&#8217; school life in the way this bill would demand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodding poor parents to get even more involved is really just a callous disregard for the fact that parental involvement\u2013while ideal\u2013is a luxury that not all families can afford. Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC after Tennessee proposed a bill that would take money away from the state\u2019s poorest families if their children fail to make the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/09\/prodding-poor-parents-to-get-even-more-involved\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}