The Obama administration is kicking around the idea of extending the school year from 180 days to 200 days as well as lengthening the school day. What are your thought on this? I think American kids definitely need to spend more time in school. We've become spoiled with our comparatively short school years. Kids is Japan go to school 243 days/year. I'm sick of American kids testing so poorly compared to students from foreign countries.
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My first thought is how we will pay for it. It's a great idea to have more education, but taxes will have to be increased to pay the teachers.
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It will give him even more time to indoctrinate them!
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I think it is a good idea. But the curricula will have to be improved as well so that they actually teach and not just show videos to fill the day.
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Great idea. Maybe our kids will catch up to the rest of the world.
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I see why it is being considered, but I don't agree with it. Let kids have their summer vacation.
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I think it is a great idea as our kids are competing with the Chinese, Japanese and Indians and we need more Math and Science in our schools and less crap like teaching our kids "creationism" and other stupid Conservative things.
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Not Govt.'s authority, Its a state, city matter..
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Ploy to get the teachers union higher pay. That is why you don't hear any complaints from them on a lengthening the school day.
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God forgive if we raise taxes to create something that sounds like a good idea...
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If Republicans start taking jobs in the public school system rather than complaining about it all the time, [to be continued]... ...
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It's fine with me. I mean.. it's only 20 days. It's not that big of a change, so people shouldn't complain about kids not having their summer vacation.
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Why does the school year need to be expanded? Most school systems across America have had 180 day calendars for decades (heck even centuries for some) and for most of that time these schools were functional and effective in educating children. So what does Obama hope to accomplish by having children attend more days of poor quality education?
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You can extent the school year,but until you let the teachers bring back discipline in the class room you can have them go 24/7 and not accomplish anything.
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i think it's a good idea because then we get a longer summer vacation i know it might be a week longer but i really don't mind going to school for an extra hour or extra week.
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I disagree with extending the school day and year. It will cost Billions to do this and we just do not have it, and we can only be taxed so much. You want children to achieve greatness, then there must be parents who are there helping the child. As it is today, those children who succeed do have parents who are there to support them and help them with their homework when they get home. But those that do not succeed do not have parental support. It would be more beneficial for parents to get off their lazy rumps and help and support their child. For those who are at risk of getting in trouble after school and when they are on break, well there are summer programs that they can attend, yes they cost money, but so does extending the school year, and in the end it is cheaper to for these kids to go to camp. Churches also offer summer programs and they are not very expensive. I think by extending the year and day is just a way of keeping the children away from their parents and families and to instill Obamas Socialist program. Your child would end up spending more time at school than they do with you....now if you are a lazy non caring parent then extending the school year and day will be great for you, as you are too lazy to care for your child yourself. It is a bad idea for the children and for the family.
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