[DLfromthedesert]

Yup. Just turn the kids over to the government.

[pogo101]

Not sure he is wrong (that kids need more serious schooling for the modern era ahead, a better work ethic inculcated early) ... but then, I fail to see why GOVERNMENT should be the default operator of schools.

[GeronL]

It’s not like there is any education going on at these schools.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Regimentation of children by the state. Stalin would be impressed.

[WhatNot]

In other words, “Give us more money, more brainwashing needs to take place”.

[Jim Robinson]

Keep the feds out of our schools. It’s none of their business.

[goodnesswins]

Goodnesswins calls for the abolition of the Department of Education....and especially for the abolition of the Education Secretary’s job.....GET the GOVERNMENT OUT of EDUCATION....they’ve failed.

[LukeL]

Seven hours is more than enough if you get rid of the following: diveristy classes, self esteem classes, pointless assemblies, the option of 2 studyhalls, a lot of social studies lessons etc. Also don’t make science optional and require math every year along with teaching phonics and real language (not writing poems or asking how a book makes you feel)

[Gene Eric]

The goal being to separate the children from their parents.

Predators.

[J Edgar]

It all makes sense.
These are the future workers who have been sold into slavery by The Usurper and CommieCrates in Congress. The now belong to the State, and therefore, it's in the State’s best interests to form them into loyal, proficient, well-formed workers.
The State will control their conception, education, work environment, health maintenance, and finally their termination, and disposal.

CommieCrates have a well thought-out plan, and are well on their way to implementing, while the GOP Leadership stands on the sidelines being congenial.

[poobear]

Hell, why not just take the eggs and sperm from the non-productive and produce an army of worker drones! Oh, that’s right. Drones don’t pay taxes. DARN!

[Cyber Ninja]

good grief

[null and void]

12 hours
12 months
12 years

That’s not too much to ask is it?

[paul51]

Education secretary calls for 12-hour school days, longer school years

they do enough damage in the limited time they have them now. Shut down the DOE

[caseinpoint]

Basically they are talking about daycare for those who want it. Unless they want to require the kids be there at the school to erase the benefits kids with private lessons and tutors get over their peers, which wouldn’t surprise me.

[FrankR]

Mary Madalyn O'Hare, the infamous atheist who too prayer out of schools, proposed this same thing in the early 70's; taking children away from parents at age 6 and putting them in schools....returning them to parents when they graduate at age 18.

We ran a predecessor to today's talk radio on my station, a 30-minute segment entitled "Calls and Comments", and posed the "what do you think" to the listeners. The phones lit up like Christmas trees with irate parents, many thinking it was a done deal.

Later that day, a State congressman called me and wanted to know "what the hell" I had been saying on the air, as hundreds of my listeners were calling him, outraged. I explained the premise that it was just an opinion show, and obviously those folks had misunderstoood that is was just a proposal by that nutcase, O'Hare.

I told him that I taped the whole show, everyday, and would be glad to send him the tape; I did, and never heard another word about it.

But, it showed me how serious and outraged parents can get when you start, or threaten to, mess with their kids.

That is all this longer school days is about...they want to take the kids, throughly brainwash them to be good, lifelong socialist and be worker ants for the dear leader.

Fight this with a passion....

[csense]

They need more time to Modify the notion that the power of government is derived from the people. Communists, all of 'em...

[RitaOK]

Beck ran through the academics learned by the founding fathers. Was it John Quincy Adams who was a secretary to his father while the latter served as ambassador to England.
JQA was eleven. When he was 14 he was a secretary to the ambassador to Russia. The children were spelling five syllable words that you and I can’t pronounce in fourth grade, training with the militia at five.

Puhleeze. They are just looking for reasons to call for our arrests they’re so desperate. This idea can not happen in a free society. We need marxists out of the schools and churches. Period. Problem solved.

[Jedidah]

12 hours a day?

Is this satire?

Does this guy have kids? I’d like to lock him in a classroom of 6th graders for 12 hours. Makes me smile to think about it.

[muddler]

But you top it off with dancing, art, drama, music, yearbook, robotics, activities for older siblings and parents, ESL classes.”

Where the hell's this guy been, they already do all of that and more.