Posted on 07/30/2010 4:47:22 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Like the traditional family, America's school calendar is old-fashioned, says Education Secretary Arne Duncan. "In all seriousness, I think schools should be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week, 11-12 months of the year." Go ahead -- re-read that. I'll wait.
Are you convinced yet? Are you finally convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that America is under the leadership of not just left-wingers, but communists. You should no longer be afraid to use that word. Not after this.
"The days of telling kids to go home at 2:30 and having mom there are gone," says Duncan. "Whether it's a single parent working one, two, three jobs or two parents working, that's why we have to keep our schools open longer."
And to think: It all began with one woman's deep psychological torment. Betty Friedan ushered in this new world of ours with her book, The Feminine Mystique -- in which she urged women to leave their homes in search of greener pastures. For mothers, she said, the home is a "comfortable concentration camp."
It only took four decades for the most significant social revolution of our time -- feminism -- to systematically ruin the American family.
Wake up, America. You are just as guilty as Duncan if you do not act. If you do not do something, you will regret it. I truly believe the Obama administration is asking for a civil war.
All other issues -- all of them, even terrorism -- cease to matter if there is no such thing as the American family. This is sick.
I like the idea. My neighborhood would be a lot quieter.
19th Century Sweatshops only worked children 12 hours/day, 6 days/week....
We’ve come a long way, baby....
You said it.
Goodbye Childhood.
Merely extending the hours of indoctrination, so there will be fewer people in the re-education camps.
We’re homeschoolers.
Our school is open, not only during “normal” school hours to satisfy the state’s requirements, but whenever we encounter a good learning opportunity.
IOW, the schools are primarily warehouses for children.
ML/NJ
“America is under the leadership of not just left-wingers, but communists. You should no longer be afraid to use that word.”
Well, duhhhh..
I have been calling the regime “MARXIST” before it took office. So has Michael Savage.
I had one FReeper jump on me for using the term USSA, but that is what it has become, and it will get even worse.
Anyone that supports this regime should be referred to as neo-Marxist.
The writer would get more depth if he’d realized (or mentioned) that Betty Friedan was a Communist.
He’s an energetic homosexual.
it makes me sad that it has come to this!!
Abolish the socialist indoctrination centers.
Let the parents keep the tax money and be responsible for their children’s education.
Agree aside Arne Duncan being an idiot he must be a member of the teachers union.
I actually read another article quoting him as joking that the schools need to be kept open “13 months” a year—yep, the same thing that ran Greece into bankruptcy: bureaucrats getting paid for 14 months per year!!! Remember, it’s all about the teachers’ unions, folks, nothing more!
I think my kids’ band director already thinks this is the case. He has them up there practicing all the freakin’ time!
Communist goals number 17, 40 and 41 are applicable.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
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.
Further proof that the dept of education (like 75% of the rest of the fedgov) must be abolished
Why waste all that money hauling students home to sleep? Just give the parents visitation rights on holidays.
However, that said, I know several teachers who only became teachers because of the nice hours they have (I know, they work hard during the school year, they say)and have their summers off. They are not teaching because they love to teach. Besides, the Teachers' Union will never allow this. Bringing this up again is just a lot of noise for no reason other than some new nut wants attention and thinks she can change the system.
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