{"id":1230,"date":"2009-02-13T21:15:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T02:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2009-02-13T21:15:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T02:15:49","slug":"eliminating-grade-levels-in-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/eliminating-grade-levels-in-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminating grade levels in public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my flight instructors had been a high school English teacher.\u00a0 &#8220;Scott, how could you quit an $80,000\/year union job to become an $8\/hour flight instructor?&#8221; I asked. 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