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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GOP Leadership goals are much different than Conservative goals.
GOP Leadership is about power, money, and serving those who line there pockets, as in International Corporate interests.
Conservatives are interested in Constitutional Republic interests, individual freedom, and favorable small business operating environment.
RINOs exist (as in being supported and funded) to destroy Conservative strength in the service of GOP Leadership goals. JMHO
Good RINO examples are Juan and Lady Graham being funded through Soros funded foundations. They are both supported by GOP Leadership.
The “Won” appointed Kevin Jennings as his “Safe School Czar”—Kevin Jennings founded GLSEN, (gay, lesbian and straight “education” network.)
Hey! The “Safe School Czar” hands out “fisting kits” to school children!!!! (can you say “fisting”? I thought ya could).....
This is the pervert the “Won” appoints as “safe school czar”.
Parents that sit ignorantly by, are asking for this. Jennings will just have more TIME to pervert the children.
I’m sure the “Won” would approve...after all...
he’s our first “Twink” pResident.
This can’t be far behind:
Orphanage is the name to describe a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable to care for them. Parents, and sometimes grandparents, are legally responsible for supporting children, but in the absence of these or other relatives willing to care for the children, they become a ward of the state, and orphanages are a way of providing for their care and housing. Children are educated within or outside of the orphanage.
They could provide all meals, all medical care, and all education. Perhaps the kids could visit their parents and siblings on alternate Thursdays for an hour or two.
And to think that the most brilliant Americans had very little, if any “government” schooling. We adopted Prussian schooling methods which “conditions” and “brainwashes” according to Skinner and Pavlov and Freud (sex is the primary drive in humans, and Darwin (there is no God).
Creates non-thinking consumer immoral hedonists. The Western Civ Christian paradigm was dumped without parents understanding the consequence of the subtle brainwashing.
Education does not happen in public schools anymore except by accident.
John Dewey inserted “social” studies, etc, and ruined public education by getting rid of the Classics and logic and Natural Law and God’s Laws along with the reading of the Founding documents, etc.
Dewey want younger kids because their minds were plastic. This plasticity was recognized by Lenin and his school policies of taking the very young away from the mother.
70’s inserted situational ethics (code for moral relativism —no God) and multiculturalism (code for hate oppressive whitey), tolerance—the way to attack Natural Law and pervert the nature of children to think in unnatural way).
All the above is filling children with disinformation so that they will not be able to think logically—Marxist goal so they fall for the Big Lie and are useless in forming opposition.
We saw the results of this type of education with the zombies chanting the obama songs and voting for this creepy fascist.
homeschooling takes about that from what I hear.....just a few hours a day, the rest they get to relax....
“Seven hours is more than enough “
Or if you home school, a good thorough HS education with AP math and serious English and foreign language and etc. can all be had in 4-5 hours a day.
Two of mine entered college at 16, no problem.
They don’t have to go to college at 16 or go at all to prove anything; I just mention it as a possibility. Twelve hours a day is nasty and counterproductive.
Duncan is a laugh. He doesn’t know that schools exist to employ otherwise-unemployable liberal arts majors who like their summers off and retiring after 25 years.
“Year round schooling doesn’t sound bad to me,’
It does to me. Kids need a break. They are not adults; and even adults get vacations.
Kids need downtime; time to do nothing; time to waste; time to try and often fail; time to oversleep; time to stare into space; time to pursue their own interests, as ‘useless’ as they may seem; time to daydream. They aren’t machines.
I feel a song coming on.
Well shut them books and throw 'em away
And say goodbye to dull school days
Look alive and change your ways
It's summertime...
Well no more studying history
And no more reading geography
And no more dull geometry
Because it's summertime
“. . . robotics, . . . “
What is this? Turning the kids into robots that talk about global warming and recycling?
I remember when Klintoon got elected, I read an article in the Sacramento Bee (I had the great misfortune to live around there at that time) by his education sec or proposed sec. The fiend wanted all year round school, 12 hour days like this, and school starting from a few months old.
My hair stood on end in horror.
These fiends want to turn our country into a huge re-education camp.
That is exactly what was going through my head...just ruin the family.
I need to ping this out tomorrow.
If schools would limit themselves to traditional academics, the three Rs as it were, and science and some Phys ed there would be time enough in a 5 hour day. Through 4th grade I was in school from 0900 to 1500 with an hour for lunch. It was a USG funded private school in Istanbul for the children of Americans. When I came home to Public School I was several years ahead of my classmates and became a bored stiff troublemaker until school caught up with me somewhere in 7th or 8th grade. I got more actual history in 3rd and 4th grades than I got in public school through 12th grade. As for arithmetic, public school didn’t have anything to show me until algebra in 9th grade. When I was in 4th grade the school learned that kids going back were being “put back” a grade because they had not read the Dick and Janes or Alice and Jerrys. The principle got multiple copies of all of them through level 6 and sent the 4th-6th graders out on the playground to supervise the 1st-3rd graders to read them all in one day. I don’t think anyone had any trouble and the 2 series got checked off for everyone.
If I had not had summers free of school I would have killed myself.
I hated every single minute of school. Hated is too weak a word.
Uncle is deeply involved in the schools. The federally funded school lunch program gives the feds huge amounts of control.
Not to mention TitleI and others.
Better talk to the union first. They are going to need a lot more pay and benefits for this, plus new hires...
Seems the Secretary wants re-education camps, not education.
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