{"id":21,"date":"2003-02-26T18:23:06","date_gmt":"2003-02-26T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-06-29T18:07:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T22:07:56","slug":"talking-about-disd-and-my-wifes-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Talking about DISD and my wife&#8217;s job."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: the Dallas ISD is the 8th largest in the nation, having recently been eclipsed by the Broward County, Florida, school system. Dallas ISD serves over 150,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>Fact: The Dallas ISD is divided into 8 regions, each with their own superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>Fact: The Dallas ISD is still operating under court-ordered integration lawsuits filed 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Fact: Laureen, my wife, works in Dallas ISD, and every day is not just a learning experience, it&#8217;s a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be adding some stories about Laureen and teaching here and there. Or better yet, I might convince Laureen to write her own stories.  We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Sample quote from one of her students: &#8220;Miss, I&#8217;m not racist, but I can&#8217;t be put in a group with Mexicans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: the Dallas ISD is the 8th largest in the nation, having recently been eclipsed by the Broward County, Florida, school system. Dallas ISD serves over 150,000 students. Fact: The Dallas ISD is divided into 8 regions, each with their own superintendent. Fact: The Dallas ISD is still operating under court-ordered integration lawsuits filed 25 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talking about DISD and my wife&#8217;s job.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-floating-hostility","category-humor","category-perspectives","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}