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Lucille
04-09-2009, 10:33 AM
Schools chief says kids need more class time (http://www.examiner.com/a-1947950~Schools_chief_says_kids_need_more_class_ti me.html):


Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told hundreds of Denver schoolchildren Tuesday that American school reform must include longer class days.

Duncan says reform proposals coming from the Obama administration will include longer school years, plus Saturday school and longer days.

This is CfAP and Damnit Janet's evil plaaaan from '05 (http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/related/89865):


PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano is to unveil a plan today that could make summer vacation for students go the way of slide rules and blackboard erasers.

The proposal being announced this morning in Washington, D.C., seeks a 210-day school year across the United States, particularly in school districts with a large percentage of students who perform poorly.

That is six weeks longer than the 180 days now required under Arizona law and six weeks longer than the national average.

But that's not all: The report by a national task force Napolitano co-chairs also wants a longer school day. It doesn't say specifically how long, but it refers to a chain of charter schools where students attend from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. - and half a day on Saturdays.


That's a longer work day/week than most adults put in! Talk about burnout. The day this madness passes is the day I become a homeschooling mom.

Why do Democrats hate The Children®?


Martin Drozdoff, a retired special-education teacher, said a longer school year would help students retain what they learn each year. "It would help raise teachers' income and would be a tremendous buildup of skills with the students," he said.

And it all becomes clear...

Related: New at Reason: David Harsanyi on the Fundamental Dishonesty of Arne Duncan (http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132800.html)


Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (http://www.reason.com/news/show/132790.html) argues that we have an obligation to disregard politics to do whatever is "good for the kids." But if that's really how he feels, writes David Harsanyi, why did Duncan's Department of Education bury a politically inconvenient study regarding education reform? And why, now that the evidence is public, does the administration continue to ignore it and allow reform to be killed?

ChaosControl
04-09-2009, 10:58 AM
"We need more time to brainwash the youth. There are still a few who graduate with the ability to think for themselves, we must make sure that no one who graduates has that ability."

Did these morons ever think it isn't about how long you spend learning, but HOW you spend your time learning?

Lucille
04-09-2009, 12:22 PM
"We need more time to brainwash the youth. There are still a few who graduate with the ability to think for themselves, we must make sure that no one who graduates has that ability."

Exactly. I mean, 53% of Americans (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/just_53_say_capitalism_better_than_socialism) believe Capitalism is better than Socialism! Our Marxist overlords still have some work to do...


Did these morons ever think it isn't about how long you spend learning, but HOW you spend your time learning?

Sorry! No time for math, hard science and history! They have AGW theory and multiculturalism to "teach."