Michelle Malkin reports that President Obama wants to cut back on children’s summer vacation. Hmmm. Wonder why Obama wants children in school so much.
Could it be he wants more of this?
Come on. Well, we finally found something that Obama wants to cut other than missile defense. And what is it? Summer vacation! Hmmm. Who’d a thunk that Obama’s solution to failing public schools would be…more time in public (government) schools. Didn’t see that one coming, right? Let me guess that would also mean more money to the teacher’s unions too, right?
As Malkin writes:
If schools wasted less time on “social justice,” “Everyday Math” crap, eco-zealotry, field trips to gay weddings and illegal alien day labor centers, rappin’, revolution, and radicalism, and searching for children’s “inner Obamas,” they wouldn’t need to make up all the squandered days and weeks during the summer.
I fear that this may be a popular notion in these days when so many families have both parents working. This will seem like a great thing for many families for who keeping the children in school saves them the trouble of finding a sleepaway camp for the summer.
Patterico also has some thoughts on whether this would do any good.
September 29, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Also…
http://mediamatters.org/research/200909290006
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909290008
September 29, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Sue– Please accept my apology. I should not have lumped all educators in the public school system together into one pot.
FWIW, we homeschool year-round, though we slack off some during the summer.
September 30, 2009 at 12:13 am
With all the diminishing revenue across the country and the Several States near bankruptcy, where does Dear Leader expcet the money to come from to pay for all this extra schooling? Class time is alreacy being shortened as a result of budget constraints. One couldn't possibly arrange a schedule which would accomodate teachers to go year-round and make it so these teachers get three-month rotations to be off the equivalent of Summer without having to hire more teachers anyway. Hello, no money. Classes then would become exponentially larger to accomodate the new schedule while utilizing the same teachers. Not workable.
There are schools which are already year-round but they are few and far between (at least here in the L.A. area) and getting the rest of the districts to follow suit is yet more lunacy.
Matt
October 1, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Not to mention the air conditioning that would have to be installed in every room in northern schools. I'm not sure about southern schools- I imagine they'd be stifling from May to to October- and therefore already have air conditioning. As for Michigan, things don't heat up too badly here until mid-June and cool down mid-September. So, really the classroom is only unbearable for 2 months of the school year currently. If we were to be in session for all of July and August though, we'd need a/c for every classroom.
Again, where's the money? Where are we getting the money for this? It's bad enough that most college kids have their own school debt to pay off when they graduate, but now they must pay off the national debt as well??
October 1, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Sarah,
Why does the Secretary of Defense never get asked these questions about money?
October 3, 2009 at 6:16 am
Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, laid out the whole plan in an interview with Charlie Rose some months back. And it's really scary.
Even though Duncan made it sound like a great thing for family and community , the end was pretty obvious: Schools would be used to indoctrinate kids and their family, usurp parental authority, and replace the Church as teacher of morals and values.
It shouldn't be surprising that this plan will be backed by some decent but uninformed people.
October 10, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I am a freshmen in college and just graduated from college. While i agree with some of you on this topic i also think that, you guys need to stop thinking about your money and start thinking more about the future generation intelligence! Yes you will be losing money but your kids will get that money back imagine the jobs they can get being more intelligent the places they can go. Yes, they'll be in school longer but because of our schools. Most parents have to put their kids in summer school so they can catch up.Now if your putting your kids in summer school now it's basically the same thing as them being in school over the summer. So just think about what it will do for your kids future…..NOW DON'T YOU THINK IT WILL BE WORTH IT?
December 15, 2009 at 3:14 am
I am a sophmore in high school in Connecticut. I went to a prep school last year until March that had a longer summer and more vacation. We did however have school on Saturdays, but only for half a day and Wednesdays were half days. I went to public school after leaving the prep school for reasons to do with the kids there. The longer summer made me much more relaxed and life in my home better. As there was no fighting about my grades and why I don't try hard in school. If kids want to succeed in school they will and if they don't they won't. It's honestly that simple if I wanted to I could have straight A's but I don't want to so I'm failing.
Also, kids in my public school literally flock out after 3rd period (we have 4 periods a day). The kids who do poorly in school will not go to school when they don't want to. We have security guards and police officers inside our school and cameras to see who skips. But, this does not stop kids from skipping.
Simply, most of the kids doing poorly in school will simply walk out of the school when school normally ends and will not stay. Kids who want to do good in school and have decent grades already stay after school for help and by adding more hours to the day and cutting vacation you will simply have more kids being suspended and spending less time in school anyways.
This plan will make all students successful and unsuccessful hate Obama as we students already believe there is too much time spent in school. We are the future and future voters and by implementing this plan Obama is commiting political suicide and making his chances of re-election very unlikely.
Sincerely,
A Student