{"id":65,"date":"2007-04-01T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/archives\/65"},"modified":"2007-04-01T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T13:20:42","slug":"kansas-pragmatisim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Pragmatisim&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Biology teachers. <\/p>\n<p>Check out this article in today&#8217;s Wichita Eagle.  <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansas.com\/196\/story\/33702.html\"><strong><br \/>\nSlackers, take note: Workers who know science, math are in demand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re going to get blunt here about why it&#8217;s dumb to blow off school.<\/p>\n<p>The Wichita Eagle already showed in a Feb. 25 story that many students, especially boys, struggle in school, here and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Today we explain in grimmer detail why slacking is costly &#8212; for slackers and non-slackers alike.<\/p>\n<p>Slacking is stupid mostly because with basic effort you could make serious money. If you don&#8217;t believe us, consider Zac Forsyth, who on this page talks about how he changed his life. Look at the photos of other young men &#8212; students at the Wichita Area Technical College &#8212; who have discovered that they really do need math in &#8220;the real world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No blame&#8211;just the facts and we&#8217;d better get to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Biology teachers. Check out this article in today&#8217;s Wichita Eagle. Slackers, take note: Workers who know science, math are in demand We&#8217;re going to get blunt here about why it&#8217;s dumb to blow off school. The Wichita Eagle already showed in a Feb. 25 story that many students, especially boys, struggle in school, here<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=65\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}