From a report on the school-board meeting from our county’s weekly newspaper:<\/p>\n
Sheri Shreve was upset that fourth graders were learning Greek mythology and seeing pictures she felt were inappropriate for children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yes, your fourth-grader might end up at a liberal arts college like Bryn Mawr<\/a> and join the Pagan Club.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From a report on the school-board meeting from our county’s weekly newspaper: Sheri Shreve was upset that fourth graders were learning Greek mythology and seeing pictures she felt were inappropriate for children. Yes, your fourth-grader might end up at a liberal arts college like Bryn Mawr and join the Pagan Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,33],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-greece"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-qe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1027,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1027","url_meta":{"origin":1626,"position":0},"title":"The Theoi Project","author":"Chas S. 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