And This is Where I Draw the Line...
All your governments are fucking stupid; a statement that should have been expected of me for some time now. Especially after the last post...
Obama, man, you are letting me down terribly with your extended school shit. I think you must have a very warped perception of what is causing failure. Let me break it down for you.
First and foremost it is of upmost importance to realize that we may not be producing the smartest kids in the world, but they certainly are not the stupidest. There are children, like my daughter, who go to these schools and excel tremendously. She has even gotten a nice letter and award from you, Mr. President, for her academic achievements and you are going to sit here and say that she is not doing enough in school now.
I’m sorry, but fuck you.
I don’t think you realize what actually makes children fail in school and I can assure you that forcing them to go longer and reducing or even eliminating their social and family time will not produce better grades. What it will produce is truancy, lessened family and social development and more failure. Fuck the economical bull shit. I don’t even care about that. What I care about is that you are attempting to treat my child like a slave.
Kids go to school for 8 hours a day, Monday through fucking Friday like every other person with a 40 hour a week job. That is enough.
On top of that children fail in school because there is a lack of MOTIVATION to actually do well in school. What child do you know is sincerely worried about what they are going to do when they “grow up”? It is simply not enough. If you really want to produce better grades than it is more beneficial to reward them for effort rather than attempt to keep them there longer.
I can only hope that this stupid fucking idea meets with more opposition than the health care shit.
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).
Obama, man, you are letting me down terribly with your extended school shit. I think you must have a very warped perception of what is causing failure. Let me break it down for you.
First and foremost it is of upmost importance to realize that we may not be producing the smartest kids in the world, but they certainly are not the stupidest. There are children, like my daughter, who go to these schools and excel tremendously. She has even gotten a nice letter and award from you, Mr. President, for her academic achievements and you are going to sit here and say that she is not doing enough in school now.
I’m sorry, but fuck you.
I don’t think you realize what actually makes children fail in school and I can assure you that forcing them to go longer and reducing or even eliminating their social and family time will not produce better grades. What it will produce is truancy, lessened family and social development and more failure. Fuck the economical bull shit. I don’t even care about that. What I care about is that you are attempting to treat my child like a slave.
Kids go to school for 8 hours a day, Monday through fucking Friday like every other person with a 40 hour a week job. That is enough.
On top of that children fail in school because there is a lack of MOTIVATION to actually do well in school. What child do you know is sincerely worried about what they are going to do when they “grow up”? It is simply not enough. If you really want to produce better grades than it is more beneficial to reward them for effort rather than attempt to keep them there longer.
I can only hope that this stupid fucking idea meets with more opposition than the health care shit.
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).