A while ago i heard that Obama wants to pass a bill to increase a normal school day until 7:00 i believe and i work at the Boys and Girls club in Mohawk valley and i work with kids who are hyper after school so do you agree or disagree with obama and why
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No, we don't have enough school time. I live in hawaii and we no longer have school on Fridays (all publc schools) because of a thing called furlough days... the state doesnt have enough $$, i think its ridiculous. We NEED more school time.
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Yes, 6-7 hours of school is plenty. Kids need to be allowed to be kids, not be in school all day. The quality of what kids are learning is important, not the quantity. Unfortunately, the quality is going downhill and I think the public school systems have flaws, but simply extending the hours will not fix that. And going to school until 7:00 is just ridiculous. The younger kids will basically have no time to play or spend time with their families, because they'd basically go straight home, do homework, and then have to go to bed. Same with older kids. How would they have time to play sports or anything? Some high school kids have a LOT of homework too, and they'd have hardly any time to do it. That would just be sad, basically taking away kids' childhoods. And, if we went to school until 7:00, we'd be in school for about 11 hours!! I'm a senior in high school, and I don't think my brain could even stay focused on school for that long, so imagine the little kids! Can you imagine getting 1st and 2nd graders to sit through 11 hours of school!? Man, I really hope this never happens- I sure am glad I'm graduating this year. So, I think we do need to improve our education system, but not by extending school hours.
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I think something needs to be done, sure. We have too many kids in school who "graduate" without learning how to read and write, how to do math, how to act out in public. I'm not even talking college prep stuff, just the basics. I think keeping kids in longer would help if it was done right--for the specific purposes the President mentioned a while back, that is, helping kids learn reading, writing and basic arithmetic. As it stands, the time and schedule of our public school system really is too rooted in a farming society that for the most part, no longer exists. Most of the farms we have now are either company farms, or they're the sorts of things where the chores *have to* be done by adults. So it does make us the laughing-stock of the rest of the Developed World, that we educate our children so little. Thing is....I'm not sure more time, by itself, is going to make much impact. Sure, it's the least controversial thing to say. It's the one thing you can say that *won't* get Fake Town Hallers bussed to your front door. But the truth is, we need at *Minimum*: --More time, yes, and, --Using Kumon drills to force the issue and actually *teach* a testable, working standard of math, reading comprehension, and legible, grammatical writing, --Giving Teachers and Principles the backup they need--meaning allowing them to discipline unruly, thugged-out kids as early, often and intensely as needed, up to and including physical restraing and spankings. There are ways to do this that don't encourage abuse--if closed-circuit cameras are good enough for public housing and courthouses, they can be used at school too. Likewise, having assistants in *every* classroom to lower the adult-to-child ratio is a must, if only so there are witnesses. I'd have more ideas to propose, but this is the *Least* we can do. This is the minimum it would take to course correct for a *Lot* of the problems public schools have lately. That and one more thing: --FUNDING. We need to get serious about funding public schools again....even if it means opening up State Reserve Banks (yes, it's legal, one state already does this), and having them pump *most* of their interest and fees from that into public schooling. Because just using property taxes and lottery taxes does *NOT* cut it. Too many kids go without desks and books, ok? But yeah. More time is a nice idea, but it's only the beginning. We need to do a lot more to get this generation literate and civilized again.
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