{"id":3517,"date":"2008-10-27T19:07:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2008-10-27T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T02:08:06","slug":"carlsbad-students-stay-home-for-prop-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3517","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Students Stay Home For Prop 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/102808-kids-at-table.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/102808-kids-at-table.jpg','popup','width=300,height=225,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/102808-kids-at-table-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"102808-Kids-At-Table\" \/><\/a>Several upset <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> parents made their kids stay home from school  to protest a $1.25 million donation made to the &#8220;No on Prop. 8&#8221; campaign by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">California Teachers Association<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/California_Teachers_Association_Donates_to_the_No_on_8_Campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBC San Diego<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The parents are upset because they say the union should be fighting for legislation that will actually affect schools &#8212; legislation like the budget and class size &#8212; not gay marriage. . . <strong>Anita Kelley&#8217;s<\/strong> family is one of many who received e-mails about the protest and said she believes the teachers union has no business supporting a social issue that doesn&#8217;t affect schools. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s nothing that will benefit students or teachers.  It was just wasteful spending,&#8221; said Kelley. &#8220;I think the money could be better used and spent in areas that would have benefited more kids.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe the union represents a lot of gay teachers. . . guess Mrs. Kelley didn&#8217;t really think of that one, huh? <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/California_Teachers_Association_Donates_to_the_No_on_8_Campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBC San Diego<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several upset Carlsbadistan parents made their kids stay home from school to protest a $1.25 million donation made to the &#8220;No on Prop. 8&#8221; campaign by the California Teachers Association, according to a story on NBC San Diego. The parents are upset because they say the union should be fighting for legislation that will actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}