{"id":2498,"date":"2010-10-14T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2010-10-13T11:05:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T15:05:04","slug":"a-right-to-education-especially-for-those-with-troubling-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"A right to education, especially for those with troubling behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday&#39;s ruling in a North Carolina court that&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/09\/us\/09suspend.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">schools that suspend students for extended periods must still provide an education<\/a>&nbsp;is both a reasonable interpretation of most state constitutions&#39; right-to-education clause and an important philosophical and policy point. Here&#39;s the way I&#39;d put it: you have a right to an education, if not necessarily where you started schooling. You have a right to a minimal amount of contact with schools, if not continuous or with the same teachers all the time. We won&#39;t hamstring school officials with a requirement to make up every day missed for a short-term suspension, but we do not approve of schools that simultaneously suspend a student from her or his current school for extended periods and then refuse to provide education in that time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next up in the wish-list: inserting sanity and common sense into &quot;zero tolerance&quot; policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday&#39;s ruling in a North Carolina court that&nbsp;schools that suspend students for extended periods must still provide an education&nbsp;is both a reasonable interpretation of most state constitutions&#39; right-to-education clause and an important philosophical and policy point. Here&#39;s the way I&#39;d put it: you have a right to an education, if not necessarily where you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-Ei","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}