More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation

WASHINGTON – 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.

"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."

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.

"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.

Domonique Toombs felt the same way when she learned she would stay for an extra three hours each day in sixth grade at Boston's Clarence R. Edwards Middle School.

"I was like, `Wow, are you serious?'" she said. "That's three more hours I won't be able to chill with my friends after school."

Her school is part of a 3-year-old state initiative to add 300 hours of school time in nearly two dozen schools. Early results are positive. Even reluctant Domonique, who just started ninth grade, feels differently now. "I've learned a lot," she said.

Does Obama want every kid to do these things? School until dinnertime? Summer school? And what about the idea that kids today are overscheduled and need more time to play?

It's true that government schools were based on socialism, but it doesn't have to function that way.
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Even the very highest achieving government schools have the following very negative qualities that simply can NOT be fixed because the are intrinsic to having government run and owned schools ( socialist schools):

1) All government schools are godless in their worldview. **All** of them! The good, the bad, and the ugly! All government schools teach children ( simply by being godless) to think godlessly, how to live life without god, and to compartmentalize their faith. While parents can ( with effort) counter some of this, **all** government schools teach a godless worldview while the child is in school. Godless schools are not religiously neutral, therefore, no government school is religiously neutral.

2) For all children who are in government schools because there is no alternative, the government strictly suppresses the First Amendment Rights of the child while the child is under threat of the law to be there. These rights are speech, press, assembly, and free expression and practice of religion. It applies also to the parents when they are in government school voluntarily for school required reasons or for reasons of law.

The universal principle of #2 applies to **all** children who are in government school because of the law. Good government schools. Bad government schools,...or...ugly government schools.

3) All government schools teach the children to be comfortable with socialism. The moment a child steps foot into a government schools he learns that the government can take money from his neighbor to pay for a service his parents want for free. In fact, his teachers indoctrinate him into believing it is a **right**! Well, if the voting mob can provide free schooling, why not a thousand other things they might provide for free.

4) All government schools ( the good, bad, and the ugly) destroy the market for private schools. If we had government grocery stores we would see the same thing we see with private schooling. There would be stores providing private food ( at a modest price) for those with religious needs. ( Comparable to parochial schools) Or...We would have high end stores providing gourmet food ( comparable to highly priced prep schools).

By the way, although we still have the freedom not to use the government schools we must pay pay extra ( in addition to school taxes) just to ransom our children from the government indoctrination camps. I call this ransom. Some call it jizya.

5) It is impossible to know how much a “good” school is actually teaching. It could be it is the parents who are doing 99% of the afterschooling. Maybe the only thing a government school does is send home a curriculum for conscientious parents and

So...These are only a few of the intrinsic problems that apply to all government schools, even those with a good scholastic record.

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