Want longer school years?

Well, according to President Obama's latest ideas, you should get em!

Instead of the mandatory 180 days of schoolin and teaching, apparently that's old school.

So, now President Obama plans to add 20 more days, which would be 4 more weeks, or another month to your American school year.

Hip Hip, Hooray!

http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/2009/03/obama-proposes-longer-school-days-extended-school-year/

yeah i read about that like a week ago...i was like woah rly?

Yes! This is what I want! This is what I need!
More hours to be wasted! Oh, he's made all of my dreams come true. Go Obama, Go!

T_T

Don't actually vote that, KKQ! Now the poll is disfigured. Xp

I was thrown off. They all said cleavar! xD

The last one didn't, you silly!

this is why I <3 canada!

I was all like longer school years, awesome!

but then I say it was Obama, and realized it didn't have anything to do with Canada, so b

Please don't vote your craziness into my polls, Ama.

Where are the normal school haters like me? :O

I haven't voted though

YES!
I finally got a blue post >DD

But mannnnnnnn; I thought I had it bad. The other countries go to school FOREVER!

Well, I'm sure if I was still in school I would be strongly opposed. However!! He has a point. Compared to the rest if the world Americans perform below par in academics.

NO.
NO NO NO NO NO DD:
I WON'T LET HIM DO THAT!

SickSelfishSycho wrote:Well, I'm sure if I was still in school I would be strongly opposed. However!! He has a point. Compared to the rest if the world Americans perform below par in academics.

If you knew much about the Education sector, you'd realize longer school years is a completely inadequate way to go about it.

Noffense, not trying to say you're dumb, just trust Q on the legwork of this one.

^ The teachers are unmotivated and don't care, so they don't teach well.
The students have no reason to want to learn, so they don't learn well.
Increasing the amount of time that students are in school would not help.

Two people voted yes so far.

It's 'cause they're Canadians.

Well, unless Some other Canadian voted, i am sure DF put no if he did vote, or assuming he would, thigns can change like that ya know

and i didn't vote as stated previously

I think it was Mario myself.

Yoyo wrote:^ The teachers are unmotivated and don't care, so they don't teach well.
The students have no reason to want to learn, so they don't learn well.
Increasing the amount of time that students are in school would not help.

I know right? I've never seen so many 11th graders who don't know how to read! Who passes these people?

But I agree, if only for my school. We've went from getting out at 3:50, to getting out at 3:45, to 2:50 then to 2:08.
Really? 2:08? What's the point of that? Why not 2:10? 2:20? Or just 2? Why the 8 minutes!?
The hours per class ratio in my school is ridiculous. I barely have time to do anything.

This is a stupid idea. Making school longer would make a lot of test scores go down. A person's ability to learn starts at home, we won't learn anything if no one tells us right from wrong and that's not the teachers' responsibility, but they do enforce it xP

Students will get restless going to school for so many days and so will the teachers, cuz lets face it, they like having days off from work as much as we like days off of school. We won't be able to learn and the teachers won't be able to teach and down goes America and its test scores

KarateKeyaQ wrote:

Yoyo wrote:^ The teachers are unmotivated and don't care, so they don't teach well.
The students have no reason to want to learn, so they don't learn well.
Increasing the amount of time that students are in school would not help.

I know right? I've never seen so many 11th graders who don't know how to read! Who passes these people?

But I agree, if only for my school. We've went from getting out at 3:50, to getting out at 3:45, to 2:50 then to 2:08.
Really? 2:08? What's the point of that? Why not 2:10? 2:20? Or just 2? Why the 8 minutes!?
The hours per class ratio in my school is ridiculous. I barely have time to do anything.

It was (jokingly) said that reading and writing were not a requirement for my class to graduate. Sadly, it seems to not be much of a requirement elsewhere.

The times for classes that my friends had were weird like that, too. It confused me. O_o

Wow, Steven Crowder just made a video on this. I should post it here.

You should. That'd be pretty sweet.