{"id":10185,"date":"2008-12-16T05:07:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T05:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/atlanta_journal_constitution_what_ever_happened_to_public_high_school_bible\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T05:07:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T05:07:50","slug":"atlanta_journal_constitution_what_ever_happened_to_public_high_school_bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10185","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Journal-Constitution: What ever happened to public high school Bible classes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislature sparked national debate two years ago when it passed a law allowing all Georgia high schools to teach about the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>But few schools are teaching state-approved Bible elective classes, because leaders say students aren\u2019t interested in the nondevotional course and school districts fear lawsuits if it is taught wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The 2006 bill ignited a loud debate over the difference between preaching and teaching. Many questioned whether schools could teach the history and literature of the Old and New Testaments without proselytizing.<\/p>\n<p>The rollout of the program has been quiet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/services\/content\/printedition\/2008\/12\/15\/whatever.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislature sparked national debate two years ago when it passed a law allowing all Georgia high schools to teach about the Bible. But few schools are teaching state-approved Bible elective classes, because leaders say students aren\u2019t interested in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10185\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,111,108,110,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-religion-culture","category-teens-youth","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}