Obama wants to add 300 hours to the school year. That would be the whole summer! Your thoughts?

Obama wants to give more time for his government teachers to indoctrinate his obama youth. Lest we forget the Hitler youth.

President Obama miscalculated terribly on this idea. He's really forgotten how it was to be a teenager. I'm the same age as the President, but I haven't forgotten what school was like.

Students really look forward to the holidays. It's a chance to go on vacation, get a summer job to earn some money, and a chance to get away from the school environment, (bullies, primadonnas, gangs...).

But I guess going to school in Hawaii wasn't THAT bad, and his girls go to private schools. For most of us average folks, school is not a place where I want my kids raised.

We should not do it. The kids could learn in the amount of time they spend in school now if the teachers would teach them. We have OBE, outcome based education, and that is the problem with our schools. Schools teach what the federal government sets for the agenda. They teach what is on the tests that are given because the goal is to raise test averages. They should be teaching kids how to solve problems and think for themselves. How to process information and not just store infomation to be regurgatated on a test. A recent newspaper article showed that 75% of high school kids in Oklahoma could not name the first president of the United States. If they can not teach them that in 12 years I do not think that adding to time in school is going to help. It would end up costing tax payers more as the teachers will demand more money and the school buses will have to run more. We need education reform but doing more of the same thing isn't going to solve the problem.

Link to article mentioned.

http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=11141949

75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.

Here is a book from a women who worked in the Department of Education and wrote a book about what is wrong with schools in this country. It is over 700 pages but a pretty good book so far. I have just started reading it. She got the scorces when she worked for the government and goes into detail about the problems with the educations system.

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDo...

I think that it is not a bad thing to keep kids in school yes we all enjoy our free time but that is not what the summer was originally about. The summer like the article says was for people raising crops. Also much is lost when students leave school for so long and then try to hop back into the routine. There is also the aspect of children that do not have productive things to do during the summer while there parents are at work. This would help there parents to make sure that their children are staying active and hopefully attending their classes.

American children are constantly outperformed by students in other countries. Most ofther countries have longer school years. If you add one hour to the already 180 school days that will increase 180 hours. leaving just 120 more to increase the school year 300 hours. That would be something like 3 weeks.

Obama is really starting to tick me off, my kids spend way to much in school as it is. Our summers are getting way too short, the time our family spends the most time together. Now Barack wants to do away with family

time. I am sure he does, the less time a child spends with family the more time they are spending being indoctrinated. That's okay I already have begun researching home schooling my kids. I am sure Barack will be adding that to his hit list next.

European nations have the world's best education systems and they don't lock kids up in a classroom all day. Some of them only keep high schoolers in for half a day then expect them to do something like; play sport, learn a work skill, etc.

If what is it taught is crap, then 1 hour or 3,000 hours of crap makes no difference to the betterment of the children and society.

A really stupid idea.

The educational system has been dumbed down so bad, I doubt if any of these half ****** idea's will work.

In my state of Ohio, (I don't know of others), all any student has to do, at the end of 12 years of education, is to pass an 8 grade proficiency test to graduate. So, just why are we, the taxpayers spending the money for 12 years if only 8 is to count?

These kids have too much other things on their minds, like for instance, there are some groups that will not attend school if they do not have either basketball, or foot ball, to hell with education.

My idea, and it will save millions in tax dollars, at the end or the eight years give them the test required to graduate, and if they flunk, throw them out or make them pay tuition for the next four years, and if they do not carry a good grade average, no sports.

Note; I have no idea why part of this was eliminated as no vulgar language was used, this blanked out word did not start with an "A".

This censorship by Yahoo goes too far at times.

I don't consider this relevant to me. I graduated high school a few years ago and no kids of mine are ever going to set foot inside a school. However, I understand that Obama wants to make sure that his supporters in the NEA have more time to indoctrinate those kids who were unfortunate enough to be born to parents who are too lazy to homeschool their kids.

If everybody who disagrees with the leftist agenda were to pull their kids out of the schools, we would not have all these conformists going out to the polls and voting for Democrats because they were told to do so by their teachers.

We would be best off just shutting the schools down permanently. They don't educate anybody anyway (I am primarily self-educated and regarded the time I spent in school as a total waste of time). Maybe if we got rid of the schools, we wouldn't have so much drug abuse (either of the street drugs that the majority of the students at "good" schools use or the prescription drugs that the schools promote, so that Big Pharma can make more profits, and so that they can control behavior).

HELL NO! I wake up at 6:45, school starts at 8, i get out at 2:20, then i have karate at 6:30, and im up till 10..11..12 doing homework! i get 6 hours of sleep each night! Its horrible! I have no time for friends..no time for a life! How am i gonna be a kid?? You only have ONE life! live it well! I'll become a drop out if more hours are added..

this idea is beyond dumb. it is not that we need more time in school. Its we need a better system. we need to hire better teachers, enhance the system. no one is guna learn if you stick them in a classroom not doing **** the entire day. and also, it depends on the system.

and to you people who are totally brainwashed saying "oh yea great idea". what are you robots!!?? do u not know how much this will raise taxes? on top of the stupid healthcare plan he thinks is brilliant? this guy has no idea what he is doing. we are doomed.

and by the way....."the times from 3'oclock to 7'clock is high anxiety for parents" what the heck?! kids are supposed to be a burden to their parents at all times. since when did that change? the point is to take care of their children.

and ending school at dinnertime will take away from sports. so great well have smart obsese people that die at the age of 20, what good will that do us? & no freedom? kids need a break, especially those take advanced classes. THINK PEOPLE ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!