{"id":200,"date":"2006-03-02T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/education-in-america.html"},"modified":"2006-03-02T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T21:34:00","slug":"education-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/education-in-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Education in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of the many reasons we don’t send our daughters to public school:<\/p>\n

Only one in four could name more than one of the five freedoms it upholds but more than half could name at least two members of the cartoon family.
\nAbout one in five thought the right to own a pet was one of the freedoms.
\n…
\nAnother finding from the poll, a telephone survey of 1,000 random adults with an error margin of 3%, was that 22% of Americans could name all five Simpson characters.
\nBy comparison, just one in 1,000 people could name all five First Amendment freedoms. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if anyone said freedom of choice?
\n(Link via The Pearcey Report<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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