Will longer school year help or hurt US students?

My Way News ^ | January 13, 2013 | Julie Carr Smith

[madison10]

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a chief proponent of the longer school year, says American students have fallen behind the world academically.

"Whether educators have more time to enrich instruction or students have more time to learn how to play an instrument and write computer code, adding meaningful in-school hours is a critical investment that better prepares children to be successful in the 21st century," he said in December when five states announced they would add at least 300 hours to the academic calendar in some schools beginning this year....

[wintertime]

Amen!

You should post this as a vanity.

[savagesusie]

The Prussian system (public schools) is anachronistic-—when we had the highest rates of literacy-—we never had “forced education” and kids never EVER went before 7 years of age-—if they went at all-—like Lincoln who is self-educated.

Many people—like Mark Twain only went to “school for about 5 years at most-—and they are way more intelligent than our kids who graduate from college today.

Why? Because John Dewey in 1930 was a Fabian Socialist who wanted to get children away from their parents so that Christianity could be beaten out of them and the idea of Absolute Truth (God and Natural Rights from God).

The design of our schools is to create “group think” —into Marxist ideology.

It is to flip a Christian—God centered Nation—into a slave state. To do this, the individual has to be destroyed and made into a “collective” thinker.

Individualism is caused by parents loving and guiding their own children with extended family and letting them grow and learn according to their individual ability. Collective/socialism is what our school system is for—to destroy the individuality of children they put them in an institution which could care less about them and make them conform to “mass thinking” and be conditioned to be dependent on an authority figure (stranger/State) for all information.

Humiliation is the most common way to achieve the “group think” so children become very fearful of thinking “outside the box” which used to be common in Americans.

Notice how girls even starve and die to conform to the idea of “beauty” for women -—set by homosexuals who promote their idea of beauty as looking like adolescent boys.

[HomeAtLast]

The quickest way to get ripped off by a contractor or handyman is to pay him by the hour, rather than by the job.

Same thing with teachers. Thanks to govt protection and their unions, they need only show up at school and they’re paid. They’re not paid a penny more if the students turn out literate, nor a penny less if the students remain illiterate. The teachers just have to put in their time; good results not required.

Public ed is a welfare program of babysitting. As such, it isn’t even good babysitting.

Yet it’s easy to find conservatives who shamelessly continue to send their children into the process.