{"id":26176,"date":"2017-06-21T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26176"},"modified":"2017-06-21T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T17:41:41","slug":"apples-tim-cook-asked-president-trump-for-coding-requirement-at-us-schools-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26176","title":{"rendered":"Apple's Tim Cook asked President Trump for coding requirement at US schools - report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/17\/06\/19\/apples-tim-cook-asked-president-trump-for-coding-requirement-at-us-schools---report\">On one hand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a Monday technology summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly suggested making programming a mandatory subject in the country's schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mandatory? Not sure about that. Strongly promoted, certainly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/story\/35112645\/bill-filed-to-allow-firearm-education-in-nc-high-schools\">On the other:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A bill has been filed to authorize the [North Carolina] State Board of Education to develop and offer a firearm education elective course for high school students.<\/p>\n<p>The document, dated April 5, says,\"The State Board of Education shall develop and identify a comprehensive firearm education course that can be offered as an elective at the high school level.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As long as guns are legal, people should be trained in how to properly use them!<\/p>\n<p>I would not want to be a high school gun instructor, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one hand: At a Monday technology summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly suggested making programming a mandatory subject in the country's schools. Mandatory? Not sure about that. Strongly promoted, certainly. On the other: A bill has been filed to authorize the [North Carolina] State Board of Education to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26179,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176\/revisions\/26179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}