{"id":1872,"date":"2011-06-29T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T06:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=1872"},"modified":"2012-07-16T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:27:00","slug":"they-march-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=1872","title":{"rendered":"THEY MARCH IN WASHINGTON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers and parents and other supporters of American \u00a0school children are gathering on 28-31 July in various cities around the U.S.A. with Washington D.C. being the major rallying centre. They want to indicate their concern for way that their children are treated and for the probable damage to the future of their country caused by the ravages of fear-driven testing,\u00a0 the damage to the holistic development of \u00a0learning and the probable destruction of children and adolescents&#8217; natural love for learning. They want to\u00a0raise the set\u00a0levels of achievement in <strong>all<\/strong> subject areas\u00a0and\u00a0all aspects of\u00a0personal eddeavour that is now limited by such programs as NCLB and &#8216;Race to the Top&#8217;. They want Americans to learn more and better.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a meeting of loving, compassionate folk who are concerned about the plight of school children, the preservation of professional ethics and of family concern for the future of our children; who want to tell the world how they feel. They want their school children to regain the freedom to learn .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers and parents and other supporters of American \u00a0school children are gathering on 28-31 July in various cities around the U.S.A. with Washington D.C. being the major rallying centre. They want to indicate their concern for way that their children are treated and for the probable damage to the future of their country caused by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=1872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THEY MARCH IN WASHINGTON<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1872","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1872\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}