Posted on 09/27/2009 11:28:20 AM PDT by Saije
Just when you thought he might be done, apparently access to babysitting services on weekends is a civil right in Obama world. At the very least, I'm sure taxpayers might object to having to pay for this right now. And one can only speculate as to who will get to pay and who will get to play. He wants public schools open on weekends so children have a safe place to go. Or maybe it's that he's seen the Ode to Obama videos floating around the Net and just thinks they need more choir practice?
Obama and Arne Duncan believe the public school system needs to modernize its schedule as it was designed for an agrarian economy. That's Obama's concern while he's dragging America down to where growing vegetables in one's backyard may become about the only work you can find? I guess that 52% unemployment for kids is just part of the plan.
The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.
The rest via the AP, who includes research demonstrating what a good idea it is.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe...
"Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at riehlworldview.com ...
I don't know a lot about this but I think the typical school year is also based on religious observances (which typically take place on Friday night, Saturday or Sunday morning for just about all religions) and also on the business week which is typically Mon-Friday for most office jobs. So would all that have to change too? Just exactly when would parents expect to see their children?
Of course babysitters are a Civil Right!
No one wants Friday Date Night ruined by having to bring the kids along on the private jet to New York City for a night at the Opera.
I say: He’s a wet noodle
George McGovern advocated this very idea during the 1972 campaign.
I wish the one million or so people who gathered in D.C. were together in a canyon and all at one time yelling STOP IT! STOP IT NOW! It is like an assault-a-day. Is someone making a calendar?
From cradle to grave :(
Straight out of the Communist Manifesto.
And look at the results of that election.
“Make sure kids have a safe place to go...” For most kids that place is called home. For the rest, let us do things to shore up the family...things like cutting taxes, making morality “cool” again, stopping the ridicule of doing the right things, patrol the drugs coming across the border, school vouchers, tax incentives for families with only one of the two parents working and the other one at home. A dad or a mom can do it, but the entire “home front” is actually a job that needs someone there doing it, keeping it together, keeping an eye on what the schools are doing and what is going on in the neighborhood. Now that both parents work outside the home, many things are going unattended.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
And in 1963 Congressional records.
Truly a different world today. Bizarro world.
The reason we’re failing is because our education isn’t based on educating, it’s based on socializing and getting along. The students in Asia are not encouraged to make friends, they are encouraged to accomplish and it’s considered a matter of prestige to have a son or daughter in school and doing excellently.
As long as we worry about ‘feelings’ over academic accomplishment and socializing/arts over actually teaching our children something that will enable to survive, we’re going to continue to fall behind.
Most parents worry too much about friendship and social skills, not an impressive resume. In Asia if a kid is socially inept but intelligent he’ll succeed, whereas in America it’s about making a good impression socially as well as on the resume.
On job applications, a frequent question is about hobbies and organizations that the applicant is part of. It’s not only about marketable skills which makes it hard for the socially iept or natural loners to make a good impression.
“Why don’t we just take kids from their parents at birth and put them into state-run institutions?”
That’s the idea.
Run the schools until 11:00pm. That way the kids can be up for midnight basketball.
One hardly knows where to begin with this.
-Once again, we have a lefty who has this strange idea that the Federal government is the PTA in Chief. Shouldn’t it be up to individual state governments to decide what is the best arrangement for their students?
-Once again, we have a lefty who has this strange idea that the failure of our school system is due to not enough time in the classroom (or not enough teachers, or not enough money spent). It’s never about the curriculum or how the time they do spend in the classroom is managed.
-Once again, we have a lefty who offers nothing addressing the issues that (IMHO) are likely the real root causes of the problems in the school systems that are underperforming and/or have abysmal graduation rates - indifferent teachers that can’t be fired, bureaucracy that ties the hands of good teachers, kids who grow up in a environment that doesn’t value education, and (sadly) even some parents who attempt to foist off their role in the child’s development on to the schools.
while the weekend idea may not be the way to go for ‘baby sitting”...we are wasting valuable space, resources by having limited hours for school.
I would make the school day longer, and more in line with working hours of parents so you can encourage more parents to work, and kids not be home alone or on the streets.
Also, saturday am classes—optional for those who are behind or who need extra tutoring.
many other countries in Asia, europe have different schedules and the Asians are way ahead of us. to have these buildings and equipment just sitting there because at one time we were an agrarian society is stupid.
Having said all this, I hate govt schools..maybe just give the Charter or private schools this option and pay THEM more govt funds to get it right.
Obama suggesting a 12 month school year, makes be wonder if he doesn't feel tied down having two children. With them in school all year he and his sidekick are free to do whatsoever they choose.
If the economy weren't so sucky, both parents wouldn't have to work. The single parent has it tough though. That's where grandma's enter the picture.
How long will it take to train up new & more teachers? Who will be paying them? taxpayers? My school taxes are high enough as it is right now...
He wants the to influence and indoctrinate them, by telling the parents it’s their right to be with out them and in control of Union run daycares!
I am surprised Obama is not pushing government operated 24 hour dormitories.
And...if the child is "less than perfect", then,based an their ability to contribute to society, we could use forced sterilization, experimentation, or euthanasia...
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