{"id":10051,"date":"2009-09-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-11T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:35:04","slug":"what-have-we-become-mistaken-and-regretful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/11\/what-have-we-become-mistaken-and-regretful\/","title":{"rendered":"What Have We Become? Mistaken and Regretful"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned the move<\/a> by the La Mesa\/Spring Valley school district to delay the President’s speech to their students. I said then, and I believe more today, that we need to think about how treat each other in political discourse. On occasion, there can be a right and a wrong besides a right and a left.<\/p>\n

Well, the Voice of San Diego (a great publication by the way) followed up with two of the school board members<\/a> who voted to delay the speech.  They both seem to regret the decision.<\/p>\n

I just spoke to [school board member] Halgren. She explained that she hadn’t understood that the group experience — not the exact content of the speech itself — was part of what made the event important. Two teachers who talked with her about it convinced her that it should have been a collective experience. “There are certain things that you do in life that bring us together as a community and as a nation,” she said.<\/p>\n

I also got an e-mail from another board member, Bob Duff. He wrote:   <\/p>\n

After seeing the President’s speech, I now believe the message should have been viewed live and I regret I was responsible for the delay. All should had the opportunity to have seen it live. For this I truly apologize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Too bad you don’t normally get do-overs for your moments of partisan inanity. The real losers here were the students of the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned the move<\/a> by the La Mesa\/Spring Valley school district to delay the President’s speech to their students. I said then, and I believe more today, that we need to think about how treat each other in political discourse. On occasion, there can be a right and a wrong besides a right and a left.<\/p>\n

Well, the Voice of San Diego (a great publication by the way) followed up with two of the school board members<\/a> who voted to delay the speech.  They both seem to regret the decision.<\/p>\n

I just spoke to [school board member] Halgren. She explained that she hadn’t understood that the group experience — not the exact content of the speech itself — was part of what made the event important. Two teachers who talked with her about it convinced her that it should have been a collective experience. “There are certain things that you do in life that bring us together as a community and as a nation,” she said.<\/p>\n

I also got an e-mail from another board member, Bob Duff. He wrote:   <\/p>\n

After seeing the President’s speech, I now believe the message should have been viewed live and I regret I was responsible for the delay. All should had the opportunity to have seen it live. For this I truly apologize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Too bad you don’t normally get do-overs for your moments of partisan inanity. The real losers here were the students of the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[1001,7822,4644],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1001","tag-7822","tag-4644"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2C7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}