{"id":6258,"date":"2011-08-28T23:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2011-08-28T23:01:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T23:01:17","slug":"like-a-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/like-a-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Prayer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Prayer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Prayer\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6259\" \/><\/a>C<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/275731\/prayer-andrew-stuttaford\">ross-posted over at the Corner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having botched the three R\u2019s, many American schools are now making do with a fourth instead\u2014recycling. The following extracts come from a Saturday <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/27\/business\/energy-environment\/education-officials-and-retailers-push-for-environmentally-friendly-school-lunches.html\">story<\/a> about efforts to bring recycling to school lunch:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZiplocs are the biggest misstep,\u201d said Julie Corbett, a mother in Oakland, Calif., whose two girls attend a school with an eco-friendly lunch policy. In school years past, she said, many a morning came unhinged when the girls were sent to school with disposable sandwich bags.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when the kids have meltdowns, because they don\u2019t want to be shamed at school,\u201d Ms. Corbett said. \u201cIt\u2019s a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Judith Wagner, a professor of education at Whittier College in California who directs its laboratory school for elementary and middle-school children, has also been struggling with how to get parents\u2019 support for less wasteful lunches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents will say things like, \u2018Well, I want her to have a choice, and if I put in a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich and a ham sandwich, she has a choice,\u2019 \u201d Professor Wagner said. \u201cAnd each one comes in its own separate plastic bag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What comes next, she said, is a hard call. \u201cDo you go back to the parents and say, \u2018Gosh, can you rethink the plastic bags and all this food?\u2019 Or do you talk to the children, and you make the children feel guilty because they\u2019re throwing this all away?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Ms. Corbett, the Oakland parent, said the social pressure her children felt regarding recyclable products was palpable.<\/p>\n<p>Still, she says, plasticware can be a pain to clean, and is not cheap. When she thinks it is likely that her daughters will lose the containers \u2014 if, for instance, they\u2019re going on a field trip \u2014 she uses waxed-paper sleeves, like the kind bakeries use for cookies, to hold sandwiches instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still a no-no because you\u2019re still having to throw that away, but it is biodegradable, it does compost, so you\u2019re not as guilty,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s a religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted over at the Corner: Having botched the three R\u2019s, many American schools are now making do with a fourth instead\u2014recycling. The following extracts come from a Saturday New York Times story about efforts to bring recycling to school lunch: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/like-a-prayer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[210,826],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6261,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}