{"id":2493,"date":"2016-07-05T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2016-07-05T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:12:31","slug":"why-police-were-called-to-a-south-jersey-third-grade-class-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2493","title":{"rendered":"Why police were called to a South Jersey third-grade class party"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was &#8220;racist,&#8221; the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made the comment.<\/p>\n<p>The police officer spoke to the student, who is 9, said the boy&#8217;s mother, Stacy dos Santos, and local authorities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/education\/20160629_Why_police_were_called_to_a_South_Jersey_third_grade_class_party.html\">Why police were called to a South Jersey third-grade class party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/education\/20160701_Collingswood_schools_chief__Calling_police_on_kids_not_our_idea.html\">Calling police on kids not our idea<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;During that meeting, it was made abundantly clear by an assistant prosecutor that if we did not follow the directive, they would come after us with criminal charges, they&#8217;d come after our educational certifications,&#8221; Oswald said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was &#8220;racist,&#8221; the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}