Posted on 07/28/2010 10:34:26 AM PDT by Nachum
If they want to increase school time, they should have children go to school on Saturdays. Most countries have school on Saturday. I believe we may be the only country that doesn’t. On the other hand, I thought we were worried about energy use and was going to make schools open four days a week....so confusing.
2-3 hours a day.
Please....homeschoolers hardly go to school at all. Our neighbors have their kids sleep in so they can hang out watching tv. In the afternoon they get a babysitter so that they can go do whatever they want to do. They do make homeschool fun that is for sure at least for the parents. The parents work at night so they are happy not to have to get the kids up for school in the morning and take them to the bus stop. It is a nice life that is for sure.
The USSR forced Jews to go to school on Saturday. Even had a secret police to made sure they’d go.
If anything, I’m shocked he didn’t call for the schools to be open to students 24 hours per day, considering how inflated the education wonks think their importance is, and how deflated parents are considered to be.
I mean, shouldn’t schools be there if parents should have Rush, or FoxNews on, or...
This parental abuse is unacceptable, and thus refuge must be there for children at risk.
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Well that is interesting but they had nothing to do with South Koreans going on Saturday or the Italians either.
Are you kidding? More guaranteed union jobs...
Yeah, expect lots of Liberal wailing, not...
"Free" babysitting for the Democrat voters and even better, in their view, the government raising the children, voters of the future, in a progressive liberal environment.
Only if you have a conventional definition of education. Something like, "the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life".
Most people have a similar definition in mind, but it is most definitely not what the educrats in the ruling class mean when they craft public education policy.
When the ruling class say education, they mean indoctrination in political correctness and socialization to submit to the State and other ruling class authority as well as minimal impartation of knowledge and reasoning skills. That requires the impartation of false knowledge, the diminution of natural faculties of reason and judgment, and the infantilization of the ruled class. Pretty much the opposite of what most people mean by education. It is difficult to accomplish the sort of education that the ruling class desires. That's why they need more resources, including children's time, to achieve their objectives.
Government exists to advance the interests of the ruling class. Its schools train children to think and behave in the interests of the ruling class. It has been naive to think otherwise.
For an superb elucidation on why this is true, see Angelo Codevilla's article, America's Ruling Class in the August 2010 American Spectator.
Talk about re-education camps!
If parents do not want to raise their kids and share in their education I say we bring back orphanages. Then if your kid is a delinquent off they go to the orphanage. < / i think i’m being sarcastic >
“In all seriousness, I think schools should be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week,...”
That pretty well takes care of any religious attendance on Sundays.
I was just thinking the same thing when I read the headline. I am always amazed at what good results people who homeschool their children get for very little hours put in.
In all seriousness, no government bureaucrat should propose stuff like this without evidence that it will produce results commensurate with its costs.
Well, someone is going to have to watch the kids when all their parents are in re-education camp.
With all the homework they give, many school days are already 12,13, 14 hours long.
They basically draft the parents as free labor to help teach the kids. Much of it is busy work anyway but at least I am there to correct the PC nonsense.
I hate to burst the Libreal bubble here (ok maybe not) but My Parents taught me how to read and write, at least basically, and I am only 22!and I went to public schools.
so this whole thing is just another way for the state in impose themselves in our childerns lives!
2+2=5
oh wait wrong utopia....
Never did.
And yeah, I was being a little sarcastic before. Amazingly.
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