{"id":14,"date":"2020-10-19T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-01-04T03:26:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T03:26:05","slug":"education-and-brown-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/19\/education-and-brown-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Education and Brown Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"

 It seems inconsequential…my daughter needs brown sugar for her recipe and rushed out to get it.<\/span><\/p>\n

What isn’t so obvious is that she needs it for an on-line school assignment that starts at a set time and will be broadcast to her teacher and peers. At this moment I am thankful to have the time and ability to rush out and get her what she needs so she’s in compliance with her school work.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

But what if I weren’t here? <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

What if I was like the millions of people whose work or career or necessity takes them away from the home-school everyday and entrust their younglings to be accountable for all the hiccups that come in current education?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

How do I convey to my children the relative privilege they enjoy because of how their family’s economy is structured? <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Am I more patient with the tribulations of other families who, in spite of wanting to succeed, struggle daily with the reengineering of how we are teaching?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

All from a $2.99 bag of brown sugar.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 It seems inconsequential…my daughter needs brown sugar for her recipe and rushed out to get it. What isn’t so obvious is that she needs it for an on-line school assignment that starts at a set time and will be broadcast to her teacher and peers. At this moment I am thankful to have the time … Continue reading “Education and Brown Sugar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4,7,3,6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}