The only reason Duncan wants a longer school year is so BIG government will have more time to brainwash and indoctrinate the kids while also providing babysitting services and taxpayer subsidized meals to them.
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How about strengthening the teachers' unions, giving them more money to work with and kick back to Dem politicos, campaigns, causes, and services, and increasing the unions' workforce numbers.
Academia of course wants to extend their required, gate-keeper endorsements for those who succumb to paying them to be able to get good jobs. They've long been the gate-keepers for teachers, screwing up the process and their products royally. They want it, as do the progressives, to extend to every job market. As fascism is exercised and government keeps increasingly influence various industries, they are effectively tightening their grip on our culture and economy. It must be stopped and turned back in its tracks!
The Dim politicos fostering academic bloat and academic unions filching taxpayer dollars must be broken. We must remove self-interested politicos and negotiators that benefit from academics getting more taxpayer and students' parents dollars to pump through their figurative arteries without proper accountability and freedom from corruption.
At this point, most academics that are paying attention have simply been self-interestedly and ignorantly convinced that this is the only way the system should work. They're happy to get in on any gravy train (corruption) that can line their pockets. Those not paying attention know of no other way, nor care to try to change anything.
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