{"id":621,"date":"2013-01-13T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=621"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:49:04","slug":"mockingbird-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/mockingbird-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Mockingbird Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><em>by Monica Zucker <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>tune: Hush, Little Baby<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hush, little children, don\u2019t you mind.<br>\nBush will leave no child behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>POLiTICians know schools the best\u2014<br>\nEduCAtion means taking a standard test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your school tests are too low,<br>\nEd-u-ca-tion funds won\u2019t flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More books, equipment, teacher pay,<br>\nWould just be throwing money away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If kids test at the top of the pool,<br> They can go to a private school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hush, little children, don\u2019t say a word,<br>\nCongress is giving you the bird.<br>\n(Speak) And that mockingbird won\u2019t sing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hush, little children, don\u2019t you mind. Bush will leave no child behind. POLiTICians know schools the best\u2014 EduCAtion means taking a standard test. If your school tests are too low, Ed-u-ca-tion funds won\u2019t flow. More books, equipment, teacher pay, Would just be throwing money away. If kids test at the top of the pool, They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}