{"id":87,"date":"2003-12-05T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2003-12-05T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T21:50:10","slug":"why-vouchers-are-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Why vouchers are needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Stiles, a sophmore at Parkway High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/html\/AE0F03BF-76FC-4300-8564-695F1898F37C.shtml\">expelled<\/a> for one year for having Advil in her purse. Amanda&#8217;s purse was searched after another student reported her for smoking at school. The teacher did not find cigarettes or a lighter, but did find the Advil.<\/p>\n<p>The Board Superintendent  claimed the school system is following a state law that requires a one-year expulsion and being consistent in the system&#8217;s &#8220;zero-tolerance&#8221; policy. <\/p>\n<p>So another group of presumably competent educators has sacrificed good judgement on the altar of zero-tolerance. <\/p>\n<p>The parents say they cannot afford private school. The result of this horribly short-sighted decision is a young girl described as an &#8220;average&#8221; student is being denied the opportunity to be educated. Considering the poor judgement the board used, she probably isn&#8217;t any worse off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Stiles, a sophmore at Parkway High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, has been expelled for one year for having Advil in her purse. Amanda&#8217;s purse was searched after another student reported her for smoking at school. The teacher did not find cigarettes or a lighter, but did find the Advil. The Board Superintendent claimed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=87\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why vouchers are needed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}