{"id":41703,"date":"2015-02-10T21:26:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41703"},"modified":"2015-02-10T23:39:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T15:39:13","slug":"petition-opposes-pilot-program-that-rewards-students-for-joining-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/10\/petition-opposes-pilot-program-that-rewards-students-for-joining-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition opposes pilot program that rewards students for joining reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41793\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pilot-cockpit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41793\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pilot-cockpit.jpg\" alt=\"wikimedia commons\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pilot-cockpit.jpg 424w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pilot-cockpit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">wikimedia commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>REGINA &#8212; Saskatchewan Education Minister Don Morgan says the province has no plans to cancel a project that rewards high school students with money and school credit for joining the military reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Peace advocates say they&#8217;ve collected over 2,000 names that oppose a pilot program that was approved for Regina schools last year.<\/p>\n<p>The group held a protest at the legislature Monday, but Morgan says the government encouraged the school divisions to participate when the military approached them with the idea.<\/p>\n<p>He says if the program works out well, he hopes it will be adopted in other communities.<\/p>\n<p>The program incorporates military content into the curriculum as an elective.<\/p>\n<p>Petition organizer Florence Stratton says the military is about making war, and schools should be focused on making peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REGINA &#8212; Saskatchewan Education Minister Don Morgan says the province has no plans to cancel a project that rewards high &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}