{"id":7910,"date":"2003-06-11T19:10:48","date_gmt":"2003-06-12T00:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/06\/11\/cultural-redefinition\/"},"modified":"2003-06-11T19:10:48","modified_gmt":"2003-06-12T00:10:48","slug":"cultural-redefinition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/06\/cultural-redefinition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural redefinition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Colin Dwyer has no regrets about banishing 300 senior students from the school grounds for two days last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Speaking the day after addressing a 90-minute meeting of more than 400 parents, the principal of Canberra&#8217;s best-known Catholic college, St Edmunds, said there was already a &#8220;marked improvement&#8221; in student behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">But, he concedes, some might see his actions as &#8220;drastic&#8221;. And, with hindsight, he probably would have done things a little differently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8230;A suggestion that a cultural change consultant be appointed was yet to be considered. But parents made it clear at the meeting that they wanted to be consulted before future decisions were made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8230;Staff, parents and students would now embark on a process of &#8220;cultural redefinition&#8221;, the principal said.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/06\/11\/1055220658915.html\">Sydney Morning Herald, Australia<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Where do you go to school to become a &#8220;cultural change consultant&#8221; to perform &#8220;cultural redefinition&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Dwyer has no regrets about banishing 300 senior students from the school grounds for two days last week. Speaking the day after addressing a 90-minute meeting of more than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}