This needs a thread of its own...should schools stay open till 7 P.M., on weekends and longer in summer?

Supernova wrote:However if kids aren't learning sic'em 180 days out of the year, exactly how much more are they supposed to get out of 20 more days with nothing to make them anymore inspired or eager to learn?

Supernova wrote:

1. So because one country does something, we need to give into the pressure to be like them? And where does it stop? Yeah they're known for being good academically, but they're also well known for murderering baby girls because they only want boys, should we start adopting that policy too so we can be more like them?

2. 48% of elementary schools in this country have eliminated recess because they don't have the money for equipment and they don't want kids running around instead of studying. You do the math and that takes away a potential 600 hours children could be spending getting exercise replaced with sitting at a desk for those same 600 hours. How much exercise are they going to get there to combat the overweight issue? And gym? Most kids don't even take it, or it's so lax, you can just show up, not do the work, and you pass. I don't see Obama coming up with any ideas to improve that, do you?

3. Structure or no structure doesn't have anything to do with being young parents and even if it did, exactly what would Obama's plan be for that? Go on TV and tell people 'you should not have any kids until you know how to discipline them'?

Kids are already spending too much time in school and they're not getting anywhere BECAUSE they're spending TOO much time there and aren't being given enough time to shake the cobwebs out of their heads at school or have any kind of life of their own outside of it.

Forgiveness_Man wrote:

So sitting at a school desk studying things they'll forget the day after the test will make them burn more calories than video games eh?

I was never of the belief that just because there was a problem meant that any SOMETHING that somebody proposes should be welcomed with open arms regardless of how stupid it is. Yes, American schools are struggling academically, but it isn't because kids aren't there long enough. I still would like to hear the logic behind kids benefiting from spending more time in a place that is already not doing a damn thing for them.

I got plenty damn things to propose in his place. So does Supernova. And liberals are one to talk about attacking a president without proposing a damn thing themselves.

Again, spending more hours in school is just another of Obama's dumb ideas. If we want smarter kids, make the 7-8 hours a day kids already spend in school more meaningful instead of adding more time for their brains to be drained of their thinking power.

Nystyle709 wrote:Why do you care? You don't even send your kids to school?

Supernova wrote:


1. Translation: Presto, all eyes are off me on having to answer.

Translation: I have to go to WORK (got a job?) so I don't have time.

2. So by that logic, whites should never have gotten involved in the Civil Rights movement and men shouldn't attend end violence against women rallies.

3. And if Obama's plan were to ever go into action, that would be all the more reason why they wouldn't be going.


Are you even seeing any of this from a parent's point of view, or the kid's? Or are you just thinking 'I'm out of school and don't have anybody in it so I don't need to give a damn'?

Nystyle709 wrote:Why do you care? You don't even send your kids to school?