{"id":15908,"date":"2018-03-03T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=15908"},"modified":"2018-03-03T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:16:16","slug":"the-new-old-politics-of-the-west-virginia-teachers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/the-new-old-politics-of-the-west-virginia-teachers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Old Politics of the West Virginia Teachers\u2019 Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think teachers from the rest of the country should join them, and make an even louder point that WV is just the tip of the iceberg, an archetype of a much larger problem with our entire education system. We have de-prioritized all of the services that are vital to our betterment as a nation, and traded them for debt, and the illusion that our corrupt government can protect us by dropping tons of ordnance around the world.
\nTime to flip things around and spend where it counts. On our kids futures.<\/p>\n

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I think teachers from the rest of the country should join them, and make an even louder point that WV is just the tip of the iceberg, an archetype of a much larger problem with our entire education system. We have de-prioritized all of the services that are vital to our betterment as a nation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-15908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13208,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/trumps-rather-weird-meeting-with-the-2017-teachers-of-the-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":15908,"position":0},"title":"Trump\u2019s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year","date":"April 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Sounds like education, among so many other things, is definitely going to be snubbed under a Trump regime, just like the teachers and their families. 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