{"id":850,"date":"2008-09-14T09:43:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T13:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2008-09-14T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T16:04:33","slug":"who-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Who cares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we still wonder why our children isn&#39;t learning, we might also ask some why well-educated and rich adults can&#39;t seem to learn either.&nbsp; On that point, once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/12\/AR2008091202605.html\">George Will<\/a> has found the root cause of educational success in the American inner city.&nbsp; What might it be?&nbsp; If you guessed, eliminate the teachers unions, you&#39;d be right:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>CRJHS can have its work program, its entirely college preparatory courses (&quot;the old, dead white man&#39;s curriculum,&quot; says an English teacher cheerfully), its zero tolerance of disorder (from gang symbols down to chewing gum), its enforcement of decorum (couples dancing suggestively are told to &quot;leave some space there for the Holy Spirit&quot;) and its requirement that every family pay something, if only as little as $25 a month. <strong>It can have all this because it is not shackled by bureaucracy or unions, as public schools are.<\/strong>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cristo Rey can have all of this because it is a private, Catholic, school that can pick and choose its students.&nbsp; The ones not chosen end up somewhere else.&nbsp; Where do they go?&nbsp; Who will educate them?&nbsp; I think it&#39;s clear at this point that if you asked George Will he&#39;d say: who cares. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we still wonder why our children isn&#39;t learning, we might also ask some why well-educated and rich adults can&#39;t seem to learn either.&nbsp; On that point, once again, George Will has found the root cause of educational success in the American inner city.&nbsp; What might it be?&nbsp; If you guessed, eliminate the teachers unions, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who cares<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37],"tags":[320,129,300,317,318,319],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will","category-non-causa-pro-causa","tag-cristo-rey-jesuit-high-school","tag-george-will","tag-logical-fallacies","tag-non-cause-pro-causa","tag-private-schools","tag-public-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}