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More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation
Yahoo News ^ | Sept. 27, 2009 | LIBBY QUAID

Posted on 09/27/2009 8:05:16 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

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To: BigBobber

I hate the teachers’ union even more than you do — because both my parents were teachers, so I know how awful the union is from a teacher’s perspective —
I do want you & everyon else to know that teachers work many, many hours for free when they’re not at school — they stay up late grading papers, they spend weekends doing the elaborate lesson plans that the administrations require,and making tests and exams — they put a lot of private time into tutoring and counseling students.
If students get only three hours a day of real instruction, don’t blame the teachers — they don’t get to design the curriculum. Blame the asini administrators (all the teachers hate them) who keep dumbing everything down.


61 posted on 09/27/2009 9:15:37 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: COUNTrecount

That’s a good way to turn students against you :)


62 posted on 09/27/2009 9:18:22 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: kabar

And longer school terms means higher costs, which must be borne by the taxpayer, mostly in the form of higher property taxes.
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Ah! Property taxes!

No citizen in the United States “owns” their home or business. They are really renters. They pay yearly rent ( misnamed “property tax”) to the government. If they fail to pay their rent ( “property tax”) their landlord ( the government ) will evict them.

And...When looking at property taxes the first rock to look under is the schools.

Schools enslave the citizens in more ways than can be counted.


63 posted on 09/27/2009 9:20:29 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: COUNTrecount

LOL

All those little know-it-alls that thought Zero was a hero say.... “FUBO” LOL

Next will be a hefty fine for not going to school. If that doesn’t work, then there are the camps they can go to to be re-programmed.


64 posted on 09/27/2009 9:21:38 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (WARNING! WARNING! "Political Terrorist in Charge" — STAY AWAY FROM MY BODY)
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To: kabar

Remember were talking unions logic is out the window it’s all about pay see GM,Chrysler


65 posted on 09/27/2009 9:21:40 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: wintertime

AMEN to that!


66 posted on 09/27/2009 9:22:48 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (WARNING! WARNING! "Political Terrorist in Charge" — STAY AWAY FROM MY BODY)
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To: kabumpo
they don’t get to design the curriculum. Blame the asini administrators (all the teachers hate them) who keep dumbing everything down.
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No one is holding a gun to any teachers’ head.

Teachers **willing** agree to make the schools what they are. They do it in exchange for a freely offered and freely accepted paycheck!

If schools are the way they are, teachers **willing** agree to do it in exchange for MONEY!

67 posted on 09/27/2009 9:23:13 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Next will be a hefty fine for not going to school.
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There is already a hefty fine for not going to the government school. It is called private tuition and homeschool expenses paid in addition to crushing property taxes.

I call it ransom. Some call it jizya.

68 posted on 09/27/2009 9:25:55 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: Soothesayer
Good point -- but it's not just a matter of indoctrination.

The simple truth of the matter is that American schools are basically taxpayer-funded day care centers, and extending the school year makes it easier to get more adults into the work force.

This is the underlying pressure behind all of these measures -- including not only extending the school year, but starting school earlier in childhood, extending the school day, serving more meals at school, etc.

69 posted on 09/27/2009 9:27:14 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
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To: wintertime

I don’t think your response is rasoned. There are many excellent teachers with a real voation who struggle to bring learning and more important, thinking, to new generations of students. If people like my parents didn’t work in the schools, then there would be only the lazy, bad teachers.
And you ignored my statement about how much work teachers do on nights and weekends after school hours.


70 posted on 09/27/2009 9:28:55 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: wintertime
Honestly...What are schools doing all day that can't be finished in 2 serious hours of study?

Well, there's diversity training, learning how to work with Al Gore to save the planet from humanity, practicing putting condoms on cucumbers, you know, important things... < /sarcasm off >

71 posted on 09/27/2009 9:32:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Multiplying crap by a higher number only results in more crap.


72 posted on 09/27/2009 9:33:32 AM PDT by SampleMan (No one should die on a gov. waiting list., or go broke because the gov. has dictated their salary.)
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To: kabumpo
And you ignored my statement about how much work teachers do on nights and weekends after school hours.
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If schools are a mess, it is because teachers **willing** agree to nutty policies in exchange for a paycheck.

No one is holding a gun to their head forcing them to do this.

So?...They work hard at nights and weekends. So what? So does every other person in America with any real responsiblity. But...Last I heard teachers do not have pagers on their belts 24/7. Never show up in the middle of the night to literally save someone’s life. And.. They can wear nylons or nicely pressed slacks to work.

If schools are the way they are, it is because teachers **willingly ** agree to do it in exchange for MONEY!

73 posted on 09/27/2009 9:35:04 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: TruthBeforeAll
”Typical liberal thinking... If something is a complete and utter disaster, it’s because there’s not enough of it."

Quote of the day!

74 posted on 09/27/2009 9:35:37 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: Retired Greyhound
I strongly disagree with you.

I think I'm a very successful person (paid my way through college, got my master's degree, passed my professional licensing exams in engineering on the first try, etc.), and I can tell you that I wouldn't be nearly as successful as I am today if it weren't for the way my interest in engineering as a kid were enhanced by my exposure to things outside school during weekends, on summer vacations, etc.

75 posted on 09/27/2009 9:35:42 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Actually, I’ve been proposing this for years, for precisely the reason that you say it won’t happen. My proposal is aimed at doing an end around on the teachers’ unions. It would involve a two tier level teaching system, a professional, non-union level that works year around and a union staff that continues to work the union schedule.

The professional level would be responsible for a team of union level teachers and their performance. The summer classes would be both remedial and advanced, as well as sports and arts. Summer classes could also be open to students from other school districts for a fee, so that if one school had a great orchestra program, or sports coach, that was a draw, the school district could make money and fill summer classes with out of district students.


76 posted on 09/27/2009 9:35:44 AM PDT by Eva (Obama bin Lyin)
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To: wintertime

We did 3 hours a day and took off July and Dec.
At age 14 1/2, when our son went to the local high school for drivers ed he knew the answer to your question.
LOL He said the class could be cut in half timewise if the students came in sat down and the teacher did not have to keep after them about behavior or keep repeating the lesson topic over and over. He hated it.


77 posted on 09/27/2009 9:35:48 AM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Please read post #29.

You are among those who “get it”. It is amazing how many of those who claim to be conservative don’t.


78 posted on 09/27/2009 9:36:34 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: COUNTrecount
Never happen...one word...unions.

It's already happening.

The unions WANT more schools and longer school hours because more schooling = more teachers = more money for the unions = more gold chains around the union thugs' necks = more laundered Democrat campaign cash. Ubama doesn't make a statement like this unless the union tells him to, believe me.

79 posted on 09/27/2009 9:38:29 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Eva

My proposal is aimed at doing an end around on the teachers’ unions.
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Please read post #29.

Doing an “end around” the teachers unions will NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, fix the government schools!

Government schools **are** socialism. Government schools teach children to be comfortable ( just by attending) with taking money from their neighbor for a service their parents want for free. So?...If they can get free education from the voting mob why not everything else they want for free?

Government schools **are** socialism! Socialism can not be fixed.

Again...Please read post #29.


80 posted on 09/27/2009 9:40:43 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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