{"id":2916,"date":"2010-12-22T08:05:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2010-12-25T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T18:30:55","slug":"central-falls-teachers-owe-their-colleagues-a-giant-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=2916","title":{"rendered":"Certain Central Falls teachers owe their colleagues a giant apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After national affiliates and union activists around the country fought to get Central Falls High School teachers their jobs back last winter, it does not help when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/k_12\/articles\/2010\/12\/19\/troubled_ri_school_grapples_with_teacher_absences\/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Education+news\">news breaks of excessive teacher absences by any measure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s641.photobucket.com\/albums\/uu131\/KevlarPaperclip\/?action=view&amp;current=double-facepalm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Double Face Palm\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i641.photobucket.com\/albums\/uu131\/KevlarPaperclip\/double-facepalm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m feeling right now like the defense attorney whose client leaves the courthouse to go rob a bank. Sometimes the people you help make it much harder to do your job tomorrow for the next person who needs help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addendum<\/strong>: See the next entry for more context. The publicly-known details are evolving this week, and since most school district offices around the country are closed next week, I suspect we&#39;re not going to know much more until January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After national affiliates and union activists around the country fought to get Central Falls High School teachers their jobs back last winter, it does not help when news breaks of excessive teacher absences by any measure. I&#39;m feeling right now like the defense attorney whose client leaves the courthouse to go rob a bank. Sometimes [&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":[16,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy","category-union"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-L2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","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=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}