Obama Proposes Longer School Day, Shorter Summer Vacation
source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/27/obama-proposes-longer-school-day-shorter-summer-v...
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"Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here," Duncan told the AP. "I want to just level the playing field."
While it is true that kids in many other countries have more school days, it's not true they all spend more time in school.
Kids in the U.S. spend more hours in school (1,146 instructional hours per year) than do kids in the Asian countries that persistently outscore the U.S. on math and science tests -- Singapore (903), Taiwan (1,050), Japan (1,005) and Hong Kong (1,013). That is despite the fact that Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong have longer school years (190 to 201 days) than does the U.S. (180 days).
Regardless, they claim that there is a strong case for adding time to the school day.
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What do you think? Are they trying to make free daycare for parents? Or are they really trying to increase academic scores, and is this the way to bait students into doing their best?
Would it have helped you? What do you think? Is play time important? Down time important?
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Dylan_Misek
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bull crap if he thinks he's doing that he's retarded what it would mean is more student suicides from bullying these help centers ain't doing crap it also it also means kids would revolt because we want time to spend at home and with our friends it don't really mater that people are smarter than us some people are born smart god retarded president if they make school longer i will freakin walk out i don't give a crap what happens to my parents i will not ever go to school i don't give a crap that i have perfect attendance 4 years running me and the rest of my fellow students will walk out that door at the same time school ends now
- 1 year ago
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Dylan_Misek
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arcticspirit
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I got home from high school at dinnertime in Japan, but much of that was activities after 3 or so. But I found American college very easy when I got home. That was super cool.
My other sisters were educated in the USA:
Their experience with school was different from mine, harder. Or they didn't put in the same time/effort, I couldn't say, I wasn't there.
Our paths were drastically different, but all 4 of us ended up on even ground more or less.
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arcticspirit
