Posted on 07/27/2010 9:41:20 PM PDT by Brugmansian
“In all seriousness, I think schools should be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week, 11-12 months of the year,” Duncan said. “This is not just more of the same. There would be a whole variety of after-school programs. Obviously academics would be at the heart of that. But you top it off with dancing, art, drama, music, yearbook, robotics, activities for older siblings and parents, ESL classes.”
He continued by explaining that the American school calendar is antiquated and must be modified so that American students can compete at the highest levels internationally.
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....more sex ed and diversity training, too, I'd wager.
“Wow, moving the goal posts, there. I think kids can have PLENTY of time to “be kids” AND have more serious schooling than is now provided by a typical public school. I should think a home school mom would agree. Please don’t reply; we’re done.”
You entire post was condescending and insulting. Especially at the end when you “dismissed” me. So no I didn’t lie.
It’s okay though. I can understand why you would be so touchy about it. You made an uneducated statement at the beginning that several people have called you on and you have been trying to qualify it ever since.
“Why not just keep them in school 24 hours a day...”
Now you have gone and given them more ideas.
BTW, I felt like you were trying to insult me by your post. That was my opinion. How can I lie about my opinion unless I felt insulted and said I didn’t?
“Kids need downtime..”
Absolutely. Children are not little adults. Summer is for kids to rest, read what THEY choose (not the educators), and bond with their FAMILIES. This idea only separates parents from their children. It is evil. Plain and simple. If a parent loses time with their children then they only become “producers” of humans... sort of like cattle.
Just an observation.....
We started HS'ing two children in around 1988.....Our oldest was maybe 5-6 learning to read..and the younger one was 3-4..and sitting there soaking it all up...and would recognize words and phrases faster than her sister. It frustrated our oldest daughter...and to my wife's credit she...shut down reading for our older girl. She just was NOT ready at that time....
Cranked it back up a yr or so later...and lo and behold, it just clicked for her then.
The point is...all kids don't learn the same, some things are pushed to fast.
They both ended up being wonderful comprehensive reader's...and are now both successful young adults.
Best to you........
On the other hand, my daughter struggled with math and my son excelled. We had to customize a math program for her. Now she is doing great.
12 hour school days weren't the answer. They both needed time to mature and someone who could recognize their struggles and help them to overcome them.
You are doing a good work....
Probably one of the best things we ever did...was HS.
Best FRegards,
Then you must be vision-impaired...
The plan, since the late 1800's, has been to convert this Nation to marxism/socialism through the ONLY possible means...Government schools...
It has succeeded primarily because of the decades of criminal child-abuse by the parents who have continued to commit their offspring to these government indoctrination asylums...
We are at the endgame....Morons/serfs creating new morons/serfs who are obedient and dependent on the government...
>> It isn’t the time spent, it’s how it’s spent
The same reasoning applies to Federal and State spending.
Liberalism is not about quality - it’s about control.
I consider this “call” predatory.
Me, too. Consider that sleep deprivation makes one more susceptible to 'programming' and add in a 12 hour day with school bus routes for more rural children, and they will have a 14 hour or longer 'school' day, not counting any homework.
This translates to tired children with little or no family time to deprogram or even discuss what was talked about in school.
The National Socialists rely on programming the youth because adults resist their BS far better as a rule. Not even the dumbing down of the past few decades is sufficient to pull off their agenda, so they want this. (Not to mention 'job creation' by having people to control/program the kids (two shifts?).
Excellent points.
Time to abolish the Department of Education!
And educational creches from birth...
In elementary school through grade 4 the school year ran from Labor Day to Memorial Day and my school day was from 0900 to 1500 hrs. I had an hour for lunch and 2 15 minute recesses. I learned more of the 3Rs etc, especially history, than any kid gets in public school now by ninth grade. I learned to spell. I learned times tables and adds and grammar and geography and science and spelling and penmanship and was reading “ninth grade” books in third grade as were all my classmates. Most of that stuff they don’t even try in public school now. Anyone who sends his kids to public school does not care about his children-no excuses- it is so.
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