Posted on 09/28/2010 6:16:04 PM PDT by Steelers6
What do you think of President Obama's call to make the school year longer?
Good idea Bad idea or view results Thank you for your vote. Good idea 55% Bad idea 44% Total votes: 178
“They” don’t “get” money. The school districts take money from us taxpayers. Unless the feds mandate that the school districts spend more money, we who elect our state and local politicians get to control whether the schools take our money.
What ever happened to setting goals and standards and then developing strategies to achieve those goals and standards? Can the schools not educate with available resources? With less resources? Parents must rear their children despite less resources. Now, with our increasingly intensely and pervasively degenerate culture and the near-complete breakdown of the lifelong bond of holy matrimony as a prerequisite for procreation, I will not argue that parents generally now rear objectively better children than the preceding generation did. But our schools, such as they are and long have been, actively encourage these trends that undermine civilized society.
Just a way to push for bigger teacher contracts, more union dues, and more Dem campaign contributions.
“Do as I say” Funny, the private schools have 6 to 8 weeks fewer school days, so his argument is void. It is quality, not quantity that counts. Is he telling his kids private school they need to add 6 weeks just to have as many days as the public schools currently do? I doubt it.
I specifically mentioned the indoctrination issue in my comment. And, just for clarity sake (because so many people I know have or do homeschool their children), keep in mind that a parent can have a shorter school day for their kids because they don’t have to spend half their time trying to discipline kids and implement IEPs for all sorts of learning disabilities or behavioral issues.
It’s tough out there today. Ask any teacher who has been around for awhile and they’ll tell you that they have way more children now who don’t get rest in the evening, come to school without having eaten, have serious issues such as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Autism, etc.
Good idea 55%
Bad idea 44%
Total votes: 190
You think teacher saleries are high now? Wait until they tack on another month to the school year! 0bama and the statists won’t be happy until they have their clutches into our children 365 days/year, feeding them their Marxist propaganda.
And you really, truly think that every child should be homeschooled?
Really?
Control needs to be back in the communities. The meltdown in education began when the US Department of Education was formed and gradually transferred control to WDC.
Mega schools don't get the job done so that needs to be addressed. School districts are too heavy with non-teaching personnel.
Emphasis must be focused on the essentials to develop good citizens, especially math skills, English basics and composition, solid science, American and World history, civics,etc. All of this should be coupled good physical education. Government mandated classes in black history and other social engineering ideas need to be eliminated.
Teachers need to teach and stop using work books and computers games to take up the time.
* Good idea 55%
* Bad idea 44%
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Total votes: 190
Ok class, today’s word for the day is: INDOCTRINATION.
They also say that very little takes place from Thanksgiving until Christmas break.
The two most intense periods of education during the typical are startup through Thanksgiving and return from Christmas break through spring break.
I agree!
One hundred eighty days of leftist indoctrination isn’t enough?
Bad idea. When I was in school (can’t believe I’m saying that) we started school after Labor Day and got out before Memorial Day. Now, my youngest child and my grandchildren start back to school around Aug 10-12.
I think anyone who actually cares about his children has already got or will shortly get them out of the public school system.
I didn’t see “Teachers’ Union Libtard Wet Dream” as a choice.
bad idea + merely a political act.
Amount of school isn’t the issue.
I think it’s just like what President Reagan said about abortion.
Those who were in favor of it, were already born.
Got to wonder if the Bummer thinks THIS is going to make him popular with the up and coming pubskewl generation... he may have ensured that the next few crops of just-18 voters will favor the GOP.
This is one of those things that I’d have to think about before I ‘d support/oppose.
The first thing is that I don’t view Obama et al as doing anything that isn’t politically motivated and so I am skeptical from the get go.
Next, is I wonder what problem he is trying to solve and I rationalize whether it would help kind of like this:
I believe the quality of education I reveived is pretty good and far exceeds what kids these days are getting in the same length of time. With that in mind, if they can’t at least equal that with what time they have, time likely is not the issue and extending the school year will probably just extend mediocrity over a longer period of time.
Real change requires real change. I think we’ve proven that non-competitve, government run school systems do not work over time. I think it’s reached the end of its useful life and needs to be ash-canned for something more productive, like a voucher system with private schools.
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