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Post by PirateWolf12 on Sept 27, 2009 22:45:29 GMT -6
I hope you all love it so much you want to do more of it. www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaZ6R77zq5_ZYc77h178ePWRNJwQD9AVLOCG0More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation By LIBBY QUAID (AP) – 16 hours agoWASHINGTON — Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe. "Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom." The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go. "Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. Any thoughts on the American users who attend high school?
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Post by Veta on Sept 27, 2009 23:07:16 GMT -6
Fuck that nigger.
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Post by PirateWolf12 on Sept 28, 2009 4:53:00 GMT -6
Slight undertones of possible racism detected in your post.
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Post by cogs on Sept 28, 2009 6:02:17 GMT -6
Although I hate school so much I have thought of setting it on fire to get some extra sleep, I have to agree. We are one of the least smart nations, kid and adult wise, in the globe. A kid from india could kick anyone here's ass in a spelling bee.
But I am sure there can be some middle ground. I go to a year round school(I think that is the name) and we get more summer vacation than any other vacation. Maybe Obama could cut some holidays if he feels he NEEDS to.
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Post by The Goddamn Batman on Sept 28, 2009 7:54:55 GMT -6
*is not American* COGS' post was, for once, the most reasonable one here.
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Post by blitz on Sept 28, 2009 9:58:30 GMT -6
*is not American* *Is also not American* I actually grew to hate Americans, kind of because of all the prepubescent Ameri-fags on Xbox live and Steam who think the British are douches. I practically thought all Americans hated us till i found an American guy on steam who's actually nice, Then i found this site. And also, i feel sorry for you guys if that dick obama gets his way. Lol fun fact, Obama is wrong according to the spell checker on this site and the only other option that comes up is Osama. So.... Obama bin laden?
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Post by Will on Sept 28, 2009 13:26:47 GMT -6
Blah, blah, blah, they've been saying that for years and it's never happened and never will happen. Besides, less summer vacation would mean shorter school days and/or shorter school weeks. There'd be some sort of compromise.
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Post by The Goddamn Batman on Sept 29, 2009 5:23:24 GMT -6
I don't see where all the Obama hate is coming from...he seems to be doing some pretty good stuff so far (I don't live in the US of A so maybe I'm not so well informed on what he's up to, and no I won't take into account racist arguments like "lol he's a fucking nigguh" or other stupid things like that).
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Post by cogs on Sept 29, 2009 6:27:06 GMT -6
"to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go."
This is something I agree with. For school to let kids in on the weekends might help. Some kids that are constantly abused, beaten, or anything else in that catagory is stuck at home. All they can do is go out with friends and often time, they are still stuck at home during some times. Maybe this will help some kids who need a safe place to go. Out of all this, it is the only part of this I agree with.
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Post by Roger Stone on Sept 29, 2009 13:06:00 GMT -6
Pffft, it's my senior year this year. With the rate Congress moves, I'll be halfway through college by the time this thing gets passed. Which I doubt will happen. Some places have tried this before, and it fails because it messes with the sports seasons.
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Post by PirateWolf12 on Sept 29, 2009 19:45:17 GMT -6
If high schools do stay open on the weekends or go for longer, are teachers going to get a pay raise or are they doing this out of the goodness of their hearts? I know that the wages teachers receive are terrible.
Where I live, Queensland, teachers get crap pay compared to the rest of the states, hence why we are losing a lot of good teachers.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2009 15:03:46 GMT -6
**** this!!! Na just kidding, It stinks, but honestly having more school over summer wouldn't help to much, I would much rather do something like this to give us better education (Which I don't really need I'm in phocus and am a rather fast learner [or so i think] but i do see the morons in this school, heck this school has the most dumbest kids ive seen in my life!) I think we should have 1 extra hour evreyday (Whether its 1 hour earlyer or out 1 hour later) And no school Fridays, but there is also 1 or 2 less weeks of summer vacations. Well this dosen't exactly give us more school time, but honestly it won't matter some of the people these days just don't even pay attention they will probobly just want to burn down the school to get some more sleep (>_>) but it is mostly so we don't spend as much gas for school busses and clear up some traffic. Now honestly I can see why people would look against this but it dosen't matter, there not gonna change the schools. Honestly Obama should work on the present and let someone else help the future, of course like i said some people would look against this too but we want to help before its too late.
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