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5 States Set to Increase Time Students Spend at School for 3-Year Pilot Program

Dec. 2, 2012 7:50pm Erica Ritz

5 States to Increase Time Students Spend at School by at Least 300 Hours Per Year

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(TheBlaze/AP) — Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer.

Five states are set to announce Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in some schools starting in 2013. Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Tennessee will take part in the initiative, which is intended to boost student achievement and make U.S. schools more competitive on a global level.

The three-year pilot program will affect almost 20,000 students in 40 schools, with long-term hopes of expanding the program to include additional schools – especially those that serve low-income communities. Schools, working in concert with districts, parents and teachers, will decide whether to make the school day longer, add more days to the school year or both.

A mix of federal, state and district funds will cover the costs of expanded learning time, with the Ford Foundation and the National Center on Time & Learning also chipping in resources. In Massachusetts, the program builds on the state’s existing expanded-learning program. In Connecticut, Gov. Dannel Malloy is hailing it as a natural outgrowth of an education reform law the state passed in May that included about $100 million in new funding, much of it to help the neediest schools.

Spending more time in the classroom, education officials said, will give students access to a more well-rounded curriculum that includes arts and music, individualized help for students who fall behind and opportunities to reinforce critical math and science skills.

“Whether educators have more time to enrich instruction or students have more time to learn how to play an instrument and write computer code, adding meaningful in-school hours is a critical investment that better prepares children to be successful in the 21st century,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement.

The project comes as educators across the U.S. struggle to identify the best ways to strengthen a public education system that many fear has fallen behind other nations. Student testing, teacher evaluations, charter schools and voucher programs join longer school days on the list of reforms that have been put forward with varying degrees of success.

The report from the center, which advocates for extending instruction time, cites research suggesting students who spend more hours learning perform better. One such study, from Harvard economist Roland Fryer, argues that of all the factors affecting educational outcomes, two are the best predictors of success: intensive tutoring and adding at least 300 hours to the standard school calendar.

More classroom time has long been a priority for Duncan, who warned a congressional committee in May 2009 – just months after becoming education secretary – that American students were at a disadvantage compared to their peers in India and China. That same year, he suggested schools should be open six or seven days per week and should run 11 or 12 months out of the year.

But not everyone agrees that shorter school days are to blame. A report last year from the National School Boards Association’s Center for Public Education disputed the notion that American schools have fallen behind in classroom time, pointing out that students in high-performing countries like South Korea, Finland and Japan actually spend less time in school than most U.S. students.

The broader push to extend classroom time could also run up against concerns from teachers unions. Longer school days became a major sticking point in a seven-day teachers strike in September in Chicago. Mayor Rahm Emanuel eventually won an extension of the school day but paid the price in other concessions granted to teachers.

Just over 1,000 U.S. schools already operate on expanded schedules, an increase of 53 percent over 2009, according to a report being released Monday in connection with the announcement by the National Center on Time & Learning. The nonprofit group said more schools should follow suit but stressed that expanded learning time isn’t the right strategy for every school.

Some of the funds required to add 300 or more hours to the school calendar will come from shifting resources from existing federal programs, making use of the flexibility granted by waivers to No Child Left Behind. All five states taking part in the initiative have received waivers from the Education Department.

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ThoreauHD
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:23pm
Public schools by their nature can only teach your kid but one thing. Would you take shooting tips from the anti-gun lobby? Why do you take science and historical information from the same people that change it to government’s benefit?

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- iamwhoiam
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:01am
  You know, when I was going to school, teachers actually taught and we knew to be in class on time, ready to learn, with no disrespect, or there would be consequences. Show up late? Oh, we did not dare!!!!
  There was no need for extra hours then, so wtf is the problem now? Maybe, just maybe, I dunno but this is just a thought, but could it be the TEACHERS? Oh hell yeah. I realize someone on here may be a teacher, so let me just say, I don’t care if this hurts the feelings of your fellow teachers. If you are a freqent reader of the blaze then you must have some work ethic so this pertains to, well, the teachers in our schools today. Being a parent, who pays the salary of the teachers, I have a RIGHT to MY OPINION. The problem is not longer hours, it is better teachers. Teachers today are so unionized, it is pathedic. I would never send my children to public school. I am homeschooling and would rather stay poor than lose my girls. F!@# the public school system. There is nothing they can offer my children. Oh, and let me address the ones who say parents need to be more attentive. True now, as it was when I was going to school. But, the difference is when I was in the public school system, teachers did not take the crap that parents did from their kids. Misbehave at home, no consequences. Misbehave at school, you get your ass whooped by OLD WOODY. I miss OLD WOODY.
  
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- everydaywoman
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:04am
  Well said.
  
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- Prosoldier
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:13am
  There are a lot of good teachers out there, in fact I would bet most are good teachers. I do know that there are many bad teachers too and I don’t give them a pass. It gets hard sometimes to separate the good from the bad when some of the required curriculum and rules they have to follow are so terrible. In many cases, teachers have their hands tied nowadays as to what and how they teach. As long as they follow the “doctrine” they’ve been assigned, their jobs are secure. Not all teachers, good or bad, like this but it’s what happens when government controls education. When the teachers are given garbage materials to teach, such as connected mathematics and American history texts that omit the founding of America, the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution, or speak so briefly about these things that students barely even know anything about them, you end up with uneducated students who compete poorly with other nations. Adding hours of brainwashing time with the trash teachers are required to teach anymore won’t make our kids any more competitive globally. Many of our states already require more instructional hours than the world’s top performing schools require and we’re not doing any better. Another 300 hours will give kids time for what…more gender reversal role-playing games…more anti-bullying training…more tolerance indoctrination…maybe more time to learn songs praising the president?
  
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- ToddH
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:13am
  “Misbehave at home, no consequences”?
  You were clearly not raised by my mom. Every school day was like a party to escape her.
  
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- ToddH
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:19am
  Excellent point, Prosoldier.
  The new NEA curriculum is very, very liberal, left-leaning. This sounds like a push for more mind control. I hope it isn’t. I would certainly stick to Christian or at least private conservative schools or home-schooling myself. If you don’t know why, look at all the new classes that have popped up under the NEA.
  
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- mizzouwendy
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:14am
  IAMWHOMIAM…….I have friends that are teachers, great teachers for 5th graders, and another friend that quit teaching altogether because she couldn’t stop thinking of the living situation of some of her students.. Teachers are not 100% of the problem, parents are to blame many of the times. One of my friends quit the public school system and now works for an independent school because of the kids and their “parents” at the public school she was at. As much as everyone wants to blame the teachers, when the kid has no roll models at home, they aren’t going to do that well at school. My friend quit not long after a student told her “I don’t gotta do my homework, I’m gonna go on welfare like my momma.” We have entire generations of kids whose parents are worthless and living off of taxpayers, why would we expect their kids to want to excel in school? Teachers try and punish kids and then have their “parents” scream and yell at them for punishing their kid………..there is plenty of blame to go around. Many of the good teachers leave because of the parents and kids that simply don’t care to learn………why should they? There are bad teachers, I had my fair share of them, they should have been fired……one simple thing to do is get rid of tenure. That one simple thing would go a long way to getting rid of bad teachers.
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:40am
  After a few years of doing the school thing, where everyone’s schedules rotate around the school schedule and calendar, we finally realized that the people in charge of our schedules (lives!) were not always all that smart– so we homeschooled.
  
  Ist surprise: What in the heck were they doing all day at school?
  With advances in technology, students need LESS time at school, not more.
  Of course some learning is better done in a group, but certain subjects are made way easier by computer programs which self-tailor to your child’s needs.
  My children had plenty of time for other activities– sports, music– were out of the house everyday for one thing or another. They actually attracted friendships because of the “unusual” way they were being schooled.
  
  They are just trying to establish socialist control here.
  The next step is merging schools and daycare, so like in some European countries you can drop your child off at 7am and pick him up at 6pm! Parents are further removed from their child’s daily life and education, AND more unionized workers can justify union wages. Quality goes DOWN. Notice the guy who thinks we should add 300 hours is a Harvard ECONOMIST.
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:44am
  This is about only one thing. Completely removing all traces of parental control over the hearts and minds of the children. Brainwashing pure and simple. Nothing of value is taught today in public schools. They are illiterate and completely lacking in math or science skills. Just listen to them and all doubt is removed. I am so sick of hearing people excuse the teachers saying most are good teachers. They can drag the kids out of school to go protest a governor who is trying to turn a state around before it faces financial disaster. What did the children learn then? Will this instill either self or fiscal responsibility when the majority graduate unable to even read? If these teachers are so good how is it they can strike for more money but never once strike to change the books they are forced to use? Do they not know they are destroying the children’s future by teaching them nothing useful in making a living down the road while they focus on left wing propaganda. Do they not know the history they teach is lies either directly or by omission? If they are good teachers surely they know the history they teach has been altered. Good teachers would see the graduates have no command of their native language nor simple math. Good teachers would be raising hell nationwide out of a sense of concern for the future prospects of those in their class. They would care enough about the children to band together and do something about it. This is about control not learning.
  
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- DumpBarack
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:26am
  @IAMWHOIAM
  
  Please learn to spell “pathetic.” you obviously didn’t learn to proof read your own written material.
  
  Sincerely,
  A Teacher
  
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- The Jewish Avenger
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:02am
  @iamwhoiam
  
  /sarcastic
  
  Shame on you! You’re getting a letter sent home to your parents, in RED INK!
  (GASP!)
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:12am
  they need more time to saturate young brains with liberal poison. They don’t need that much time to learn the important stuff.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:16am
  toddh-
  it isn’t the new curriculum that is liberal nonsense. It has been this way for a long time, the new curriculum is just worse, along with the lowering of standards to appease minorities who cant be bothered with concepts like hard work and personal achievement.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:30am
  Agreed, OP. I’m taking my son out of school here in Texas starting January, 2013, in the middle of the 8th grade to home school him. I’m lucky (so far) because here in Texas, I just tell his current school that I’m withdrawing him. I don’t actually have to tell them I’m homeschooling, I can say he’ll be attending a private school. His school is a small magnet school, but they are more concerned with disciplining everyone for one kid’s mistakes (yes I understand the concept of peer pressure) instead of teaching. He tests in the top 1% but has gaps in his learning (especially English). By the 8th grade they don’t care if you pass English or not. This is not an advertisement, but I’ll be using A Squared, which is a self directed curriculum that just follows a scope and sequence and you pick up where you need to, K-12.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:37am
  This is just another way for us to pay for baby sitting. You read that it will be in the poorer neighborhoods. My home town sends a backpack of food home on the weekends so these poor kids (who by the way qualify for FOOD STAMPS, so why the heck is there no food in the house?) can eat. My son’s current school (about to be his former school) is pushing even those that don’t qualify to put in for lowered cost lunches and they offer an after school care program. If they extend the hours that the kids are in school, the money comes from taxes to watch the kids until their parents decided to pick them up. My son has 6 teachers, and only one is a conservative…luckily his history teacher.
  
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- Arndt08
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:25am
  Right now I am in my last year of school to become a teacher and just going through the education program through my university you can already see the indoctrination of teachers from the get go. My goal as a teacher is to make sure they get the best education they can and I will work my butt off to do that. I hope that when my students are done with my class that they will be able to think critically for themselves! It seems like kids today are all about instant gratification and do not really know how to work or struggle with a problem. Granted this isn’t every student but from observing and working in classrooms for the past 4 years I definitely see the trend going that way. Students need to be held accountable for their work and need to put forth effort. The teachers and students are not the only ones to blame here. I find it interesting that nobody really mentions the decline of the family structure in our society as well. How the heck can a kid learn or want to learn if they don’t know where they are sleeping tonight or where the next meal is coming from. Kids have a lot of crap to deal with that learning can be struggle because they are basically on survival mode. The parents need to be held accountable for their child’s education as well. With progressives telling us that a single parent home is fine or 2 moms or 2 dads or grandma or grandpa is taking care of you is fine is a lie. It has a huge impact on our children and it shows in their education.
  
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- teachingazteca
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:06am
  @ARNDT08, Get ready to be belittled, discounted, and fought with for the rest of your career. I am a veteran teacher and I have actually become more conservative the longer I taught, largely because I feel responsible for making sure I present the end product I expect- to be prepared, knowledgeable, and respectful. This has led to much grief from every corner. But the cool thing is when your students start to realize THEY are doing better (because you have higher expectations and aren’t afraid to challenge them) and they start to turn around. The Education arena is 99% Progressive, I kid you not, so be ready. It’s really funny, yet sad, to see the shock on students’ and teachers’ faces when they hear you say something conservative, like global warming is a theory (OMG!) and conservatism does not tell you you can’t think for yourself like socialism does (Whoa!) and my students actually like John Wayne, no matter how bad others portray him, after we watch the Quiet Man :)
  
  Also, as for tenure, that is the one thing that has allowed me to continue as a teacher, because they fire people willy-nilly in education. I had spoke my peace early on and if it wasn’t for tenure, I would have been kicked out. It’s ironic because progressives got it in place to protect themselves, and now it’s protecting conservatives :). There are better ways to prevent things like that, but they are not in place. I do understand your grief with it though.
  
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bobbie22
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:16pm
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin:
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted

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dosdelgados
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:08pm
How much longer until they tax and regulate private schools out of existence?

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:45pm
  If we wanted to be like other countries, then kids would graduate high school at age 16. I don’t think Arne Duncan can pull that off.
  
  After highschool kids either go to trade school or college.
  
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igetit
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:53pm
Get out of the system! I took my son out of public schools last year–his junior year. Best decision I ever made. My married daughter has agreed to let me home school my grandchildren once she has children. Take control of your destiny or don’t complain when you find you have lost your children to the system, and lose them you will!

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mikehorve1
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:51pm
Everyone of you have said the right things about this subject. Forget about any student learning anything in the public school system. Unless they are smart enough to see though all the BS a longer school day will just make them hate school . Private school or home school is the best option these days.

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- Grey Eagle
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:19pm
  Bring back study halls that all schools had a number of years ago. The kids do their homework at school with help if needed instead of taking it home where it is possible the parents can NOT help the child. I believe the kids would improve.
  
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stumpy68
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:41pm
scam

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red_white_blue2
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:39pm
That’s great. Instead of working smarter, we are just going to go “super-size” that day. We are going to spend more money we don’t have. Did the Federal Gov’t, the state of New York suddenly financially manage itself to profitability? Did we just pay off the national debt, and no one told me? Is that how we have this extra money? And in South Korea, and Japan they are actually in the class shorter, and doing better. So the odds that more hours are going to yield better education results IIIIISSSSSSSS????

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tradcatholicgirl
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:34pm
Easier for those two parents working who cannot afford more after school care. Can anyone say NANNY STATE???

It is a LIE that more time equals a better education! Kids today half of their six hours in school doing nothing much but standing in line or other large group related stuff.

And many spend another 1 and 1/2 hours on a bus.

More time at school is more time for those kids to be indoctrinated to reject their parents’ values.

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kickagrandma
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:13pm
Just say, “NO!”

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TRILO
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:02pm
Going to school longer in theory should increase performance. It would also reduce opportunity for children to get into trouble as they would be in school as opposed to being unsupervised. Children in school from other countries do go to school longer.

Unfortunately, throwing more hours into a broken system will not fix the problem. At my children’s school they miss at least a 3rd of the year because of half days, teacher workshop days and all the holiday breaks. I say, do away with all these breaks during the year except Easter and Christmas first.

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- WakingSheep
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:04am
  The only thing this will accomplish is more drop outs.
  
  Homeschooling is the only way to really teach anymore….
  Public school brainwashes and leaves children with no critical thinking skills.
  
  I’m just glad my parents figured it out in the early 90′s.
  
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Impenitent
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:58pm
“you know things that older people don’t know” -Al Gore

citizen slaves to utopia

are we going to be the new hippies and hope love changes things back? the second ammendment was written for a reason.

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saranda
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:58pm
Get rid of all the “fluff” classes that do nothing but offer easy credits for time spent. Stop the spending of money and time on athletics, sports belongs at a community level not in schools.
Teach 3R’s and science until middle school with no electives until at earliest grade 10.

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- QuincySmith
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:28pm
  You would first have to get rid of teacher’s unions — Good luck with that one.
  
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- HisNameWasRobertPaulson
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:54pm
  Yeah. Let’s get rid of MORE physical exercise by dumping athletics. That way, they can be even fatter! Good plan! Let’s do it!
  
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- Ricardvs
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:45am
  Most athletic programs are supported by the Boosters and athletic orgs outside the school districts
  I agree reduce funding but do not get rid of the programs.
  PE classes actually improve the health and well being of the child, really.
  (It also helps burn off the excess energy from the Monsters)
  I Agree about the ‘music appreciation ‘ classes, let the class extend the practical knowledge,
  not allow them to be Present
  
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Stelex
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:46pm
24/7 of indoctrination ain’t gonna help, its not the length of the school day. Lets focus on what they are teaching. How about the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers, real American history. Screw this multiculturalism crap.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:01pm
  I’ll second that it’s just more time for the worthless progs to indoctrinate the kiddies into their sick twisted ideology.Simple solution,get the government out of the education business entirely and permanently. It ends the power of the NEA and gets kids into better schools,free of the brain dead progs.
  
  Government schools are cesspools and need to be done away with.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:24pm
  Everything Gov touches turns to Sht.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:43pm
  “That same year, he suggested schools should be open six or seven days per week and should run 11 or “12 months out of the year.”
  
  Kids in Europe do not go to school 7 days a week or 12 months a year. Take Germany for instance. They typically have 6 weeks of vacation. How does that square with 12 months a year? The parents don;t go opn vacation & leave the kids in school!
  
  Arnie Duncan is an idiot.
  
  There was a gold medal wining Italian skier. At one point he told himself he could not train any more hours than what he was. So he cut back his hours instead of increasing them. He tried to train smarter instead. and he won gold!
  
  I was in an experimental school at one point where teacher did not teach but monitored & instructed as needed. The kids were to teach themselves at their own pace. And it worked. With the internet & virtually everyone have a computer combined with home schooling programs already written, there is really no need for bricks & mortar schools except for proctored testing and lab time for science & such.
  
  We don’t need the NEA or the Department of Education. They are the problem.
  
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AxelPhantom
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:45pm
They have it all wrong the problem is not quantity, it is quality. I have found through homeschooling I can get my kids one grade further ahead each school year spending 1/2 the time in “class”. Cut out the B.S. and focus on the three “r” s and it is amazing what they accomplish.

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- StandingOnMyHead
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:07pm
  You are exactly right, I learned that the hard way when my child’s school kept my 1st grader for eight hours a day, my child’s knowledge actually declined. My child went in knowing multiplication and quickly slid back to addition. It left no time for me to work with my child after school. Needless to say I pulled my child out of that piloted program quickly as well. Not a good idea at all, it leaves very little time for parent evolvement that is critical for a child’s educational success.
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:37pm
Wake up, just more time to brainwash your children, my grandchildren! What they want is for you to give up your children.. to them! Didn’t Hitler do the very same dort of thing! When will people wake up!

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- TexasYellowRose1800
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:23pm
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ADNIL
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:33pm
Longer school days, you mean day care? That’s about what it is. More time to indoctrinate them and alienate them from their parents. But then, parents won’t have to arrange for day care, will they?

Might be better if they reevaluated what they spent the TIME doing during the existing school day. Get back to basics. Kids get into high school still not able to read or write.

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JeffDouglas
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:28pm
This ought to work just as well as throwing more money at public education. I went to public school from grades 6-12 and it was more like a prison than a learning institution. Incompetent, uninspiring teachers and ignorant, rebellious students dominated the atmosphere. So are there any public education administrative geniuses here that want to step up and explain how kids spending more time in a defunct hell hole is going to improve things?

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ares338
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:23pm
I wonder how this got by the teachers union?

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- QuincySmith
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:34pm
  More time to indoctrinate the upcoming generation to believe in ‘man-made’ global warming, mother earth, social justice, and many more progressive ideas. The nine month school year was adopted so that school kids could help on the farms; the government now says that kids may not work on family farms. Look for year-round indoctrination at a school near you.
  
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Ducky657
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:22pm
Put students in class for more hours and you will ensure one thing–another generation of mush heads who can’t tell you who was George H.W. Bush’s VP or how to determine a simple percentage. I work with people who are unable to do simple calculations in their heads even though they are in the accounting profession–truly amazing!

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chips1
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:21pm
It would work much better if they eliminated teachers unions and provided school vouchers.

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Gregory_Adams
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:16pm
“Praise be to the Republic”

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- dosdelgados
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:07pm
  Couldn’t put it down, either?
  
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DivisionByZero
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:15pm
Sounds like a way to take more control of our kids. Interesting that it is geared at lower income areas. Do they get less resistance this way? It is also interesting that home schooled kids learn faster and complete the public school curriculum in a fraction of the time.

Parents and grandparents in these areas need to raise a stink.

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karenm
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:11pm
Thank God I’m out of school!

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Gary_K
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:00pm
Another must read from Doug hagmann.

” Benghazi explained: Behind the lies ”

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/7210

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booger71
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 7:55pm
All it does is take more time away from parents.

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