{"id":2725,"date":"2010-01-24T08:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T00:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2010-01-24T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T00:28:11","slug":"politicians-not-psychologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/24\/politicians-not-psychologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians not psychologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/01\/24\/2799786.htm\">an ABC News story<\/a> on rating public schools:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Education Minister Julia Gillard says the &#8220;disadvantage&#8221; rating will not be used to stigmatise schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>How could it not?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most disturbing is that the number of indigenous students will affect the &#8220;disadvantage&#8221; rating. So on top of getting teased because their school is &#8220;bad&#8221; (implying that they are stupid), indigenous kids are also being told that it&#8217;s their fault.<\/p>\n<p>Very poorly considered policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from an ABC News story on rating public schools: Education Minister Julia Gillard says the &#8220;disadvantage&#8221; rating will not be used to stigmatise schools. How could it not? Most disturbing is that the number of indigenous students will affect the &#8220;disadvantage&#8221; rating. So on top of getting teased because their school is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/24\/politicians-not-psychologists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politicians not psychologists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-HX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}