[rlmorel]

"...[There’s] very little violence happening in schools. The vast majority is on the streets. If we could keep our kids there longer, we think that makes a lot of sense...

So. Instead of addressing violence on the streets as SHOULD be done, this liberal wants to make HUGE increases in the amount of money spent in education budgets to keep schools open longer and provide activities at them, including boarding.

On one hand, I want to ridicule his intelligence, but after reflection, it probably isn't his intelligence in question, it is his motives. He wants the government to spend more time with its hands on the students. More money, bigger budgets, more influence (both influence FOR his department, AND influence on the students)

[CSM]

The school environment is a highly regimented and regulated space run by iron fisted dictactors. If we “can keep them there longer,” say full time, then we might as well just name them prisons.

That is the actual dream of tyrants such as this education secratary, he simply wants to rule over those lesser than he!

[wintertime]

The cost to keep a child in a typical inner city government school, if given to the parent(s) in the form of a voucher, is likely enough to send a child to a **private** boarding schooling. I have read that in Washington, D.C. the cost of government K-12 is now nearly $30,000 a year.

There are **private** summer camps across the nation that, with a few upgrades, could easily become full-time **private** boarding schools for $30,000/year/kid.