{"id":1652,"date":"2008-02-07T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2008-02-07T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T18:45:00","slug":"are-you-smarter-than-a-10th-grader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1652","title":{"rendered":"Are You Smarter Than A 10th Grader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertalocalnews.com\/reddeeradvocate\/news\/Facing_the_future.html\">Actual reviews <\/a>from grade 10 students after Ed&#8217;s Q &amp; A with them (since when do Canadian High Schools host partisan events anyways?). Talk about a tough crowd:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">A group of Grade 10 students interviewed after the premier\u2019s appearance were unimpressed with their firsthand look at political stumping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t think he answered that great,\u201d said Patrick Sweiger. \u201cHe danced around it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a few things he said that I thought were OK. I wasn\u2019t sold on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Swinston said overall he enjoyed the premier\u2019s appearance, but gave him poor marks on his response to student questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the stuff was on topic,\u201d he said, but added, \u201cEvery time we asked him a question he would just completely change the subject.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was a little blown away by a couple of those questions,\u201d said Danielle Dwyer. \u201cHe didn\u2019t have a response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kiley Helmer also gave a bad review to the premier\u2019s message. \u201cWhat I just mainly took from it is we are the future. (But) what\u2019s the point of coming here if you have no plans for the future.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone needs to hire this Kiley to write talking points for the ALP because that&#8217;s got more bite than anything I&#8217;ve heard come out of Kevin&#8217;s mouth so far this campaign!<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat Tip: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pierretrudeauismyhomeboy.blogspot.com\/\"><em>PTimHB<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actual reviews from grade 10 students after Ed&#8217;s Q &amp; A with them (since when do Canadian High Schools host partisan events anyways?). Talk about a tough crowd: A group of Grade 10 students interviewed after the premier\u2019s appearance were unimpressed with their firsthand look at political stumping. \u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t think he answered that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-alberta-election","category-alberta-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}