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Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year
N!NJA sends in a proposal that is sure to cause some discussion, especially among students and teachers. Obama and his education secretary say that American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage in comparison to other students around the globe. "'Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas,' the president said earlier this year. 'Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom.' 'Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,' Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. ... 'Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here,' Duncan told the AP. 'I want to just level the playing field.' ... Kids in the US spend more hours in school (1,146 instructional hours per year) than do kids in the Asian countries that persistently outscore the US on math and science tests — Singapore (903), Taiwan (1,050), Japan (1,005) and Hong Kong (1,013). That is despite the fact that Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong have longer school years (190 to 201 days) than does the U.S. (180 days)."
for a US dollar anyone? Anyone? Buhler?
"Be prepared, son. That's my motto. Be prepared." --Joe Hallenbeck
Asking our children to spend MORE time in public schools misses the point! The public school system needs to be abolished. If parents want their children to learn, they should be paying for it DIRECTLY, not by asking the rest of us to pay for THEIR child's education.
I think your opinion is a good example of what not to invest in. Trade jobs and labor positions are too expensive for US companies to use. Both here (Canada) and the US have systematically broken any worker protection we may have had in the 70's and 80's, anyone in a large union can see this. Companies are filing for bankruptcies left and right and what does the government do, throw money at them while they've been taking away Contract benefits, laying off employees and keeping a business that doesn't have any demand (Car makers being a prime example).
By guiding future generations into University and College degrees and encouraging them to follow things that interest them instead of things that will give them a 'career' out of the box, then you would be more likely to get educated people who live and work with a purpose instead of just creating hopeless spending machines.
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The AC is right.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Well, first of all a citation isn't NEEDED. It's just wanted by you as a way to defend yourself because you realize your post was full of shit and can't stand on it's own.
But for evidence that you do watch Fox News and that you are a brainwashed fool, I point you to your initial and last post. Your initial post spewed some crap about "indoctrinated into the living-outside-of-your-means credit based lifestyle President Obama seems to be pushing for now". Never mind that is completely untrue. I have heard him repeatedly say that Americans need to learn to live WITHIN our means and stop reckless, irresponsible accumulation of debt. I have NEVER heard him ecourage American's to live outside their lifestyle. Maybe you should produce a citation.
Your second piece of drivel was "you socialist bastard's defacto defense". Right now the top bullshit argument dumped on brain dead folks watching Fox News are that Obama is a socialist, his followers are socialist, and that we are headed towards some socialist doomsday scenario. Second rate scare tactics fostered on weak minded fools who equate the word socialist with the Ruskies invading America.
All in all your stupid arguments could be lifted right off a Fox News propaganda broadcast. Too bad you can't produce some original thought instead of repeating their talking points verbatim. Try and think for yourself for once instead of swallowing everything they give you. (Sort of an art imitates life sort of thing for you I'd imagine. . .)
So no, I don't have a citation for you because one isn't needed. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck . . .