{"id":2883,"date":"2016-02-09T06:51:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T11:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2025-01-08T09:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:08:20","slug":"abby-discovers-the-power-of-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/abby-discovers-the-power-of-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby discovers the power (and limitation) of literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Abby&#8217;s homework early in the year was dominated by mathematics, but lately Bell Elementary has been focusing increasingly on reading and writing. This offers us an opportunity to&nbsp;observe a concrete, practical application of&nbsp;the liberal arts side of public education, as Abby harnesses painstakingly-crafted, threatening notes taped to toys in a well-calculated attempt to exert her Sith-leaning will over Jackson. The dark side is indeed strong in Abby; it&#8217;s just too bad Jackson doesn&#8217;t read. Jackson simply&nbsp;removed this pesky note from Imperial star destroyer and retaped it as a warning on the paisley tuffet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The literate side of the force may be&nbsp;powerful, but never&#8230; ever underestimate the unyielding,&nbsp;blissful ignorance&nbsp;of the illiterate side of the force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160207_095554.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2884\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160207_095554-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Touch not, brother... touch not.\" class=\"wp-image-2884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160207_095554-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160207_095554-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160207_095554-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Touch not, foolish brother&#8230; touch not.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abby&#8217;s homework early in the year was dominated by mathematics, but lately Bell Elementary has been focusing increasingly on reading and writing. This offers us an opportunity to&nbsp;observe a concrete, practical application of&nbsp;the liberal arts side of public education, as Abby harnesses painstakingly-crafted, threatening notes taped to toys in a well-calculated attempt to exert her &#8230; <a title=\"Abby discovers the power (and limitation) of literacy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/abby-discovers-the-power-of-literacy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Abby discovers the power (and limitation) of literacy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,101],"tags":[215,214],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abigail","category-jackson","tag-intimidation","tag-literacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160207_095554.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}