Monday, September 28, 2009

Sigh

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I stole this link from Toe Jam's Facebook...and couldn't help but sigh loudly. Obama wants to lengthen school hours, have schools stay open later during the week and also be open on weekends (by the way, who's paying for this?). Because disadvantaged kids "suffer" during the summer, he wants to shorten or eliminate summer vacation. Um...it's called parenting people!

8 comments:

Captain Will said...

See if you can figure this one out:

According to Obama: Obama > Parents

Queen B said...

sigh
ooh, shared thought :)

Paula said...

It's sad that it comes to these sort of tactics, but there are a lot of parents out there that can't or don't "parent", and so the taxpayers either pay to keep adults in prison or pay for programs to try to point them in the straight direction as kids. And in our country's situation...we pay for both!

Captain Will said...

Unfortunately we can't just target the kids that have screwed up parents. You have to make everyone do the same thing so no one feels "different". Well guess what? They are! Why is it so freaking politically incorrect to say that? I mean, seriously!

Anonymous said...

Right on Striker!

Auntie

Stephanie and Casey said...

Can you believe that?!?!? I think this is so ridiculous! I already have to parent many of my 32 kindergartners! I don't want to do that during the summer also!

With the budget cuts we have right now, how on Earth is this going to be funded! Plus, extending the school day and year is not going to all of a sudden improve our students. Good teaching will improve our students!

Jane said...

Amen sister!

Kim Thomas said...

This absolutely pisses me off! Welcome to the communist states of America.