| Did President Obama just recommend that the public | | | | boards of education and the US Department of |
| schools need even more time to "brainwash"our next | | | | Education. |
| generation? Well not really, but what he did say | | | | So let me take this apart for you. President Obama |
| should get your dander up! AP Associated Press | | | | said he wants to add days to the school year, even |
| reported today (29 Sept 2009 Yahoo news). | | | | to the point of using weekends and summer vacation |
| "Obama says American kids spend too little time in | | | | to educate our young ones. He claims that we need |
| school, putting them at a disadvantage with other | | | | to do that "for the children's sake." They won't be |
| students around the globe."(Sept 27 2009 AP article | | | | able to compete, they are "stupid" (my word) and |
| reported on Yahoo) | | | | that we can't teach our way out of a hat. |
| Why would he say a thing like that. Especially given | | | | Anyone else out there as insulted as I am by that |
| the fact that American school kids do actually spend | | | | logic. We already know that we are putting in the |
| more hours in school than those rascally smart Asian | | | | hours so what gives? |
| and European students. AP also reported that small | | | | More hours are supposed to solve all of our |
| fact. | | | | education issues, is a false premise. If more hours |
| "Kids in the U.S. spend more hours in school (1,146 | | | | were all that was needed, then we have already |
| instructional hours per year) than do kids in the Asian | | | | been there done that. So what is really going on here. |
| countries that persistently outscore the U.S. on math | | | | Doesn't he really just want your little ones in his public |
| and science tests" (ibid) | | | | schools longer each day, more days in the year even |
| Wow, am I missing something here? President | | | | on weekends... so they can learn how to sing, |
| Obama is advocating more time in school, less time | | | | "Hooray for Barrack Hussein Obama?" |
| with the family as a response to higher test scores | | | | Check out (1) for the just plain weird and eerie |
| overseas. But is it the hours or something else? The | | | | recording of elementary age children learning a new |
| AP article itself dismissed his premise. It ain't the | | | | hip, "with-it", snappy rendition of something like he |
| hours chief!!! Perhaps it is the quality of the educator, | | | | ain't heavy he's our hero, Barrack Hussein Obama. |
| the participation of the family, even the distractions | | | | First health care, now education...It just keeps getting |
| to learning placed upon each educator by the state | | | | stranger and stranger. |