Another thing I don't agree with......

OK so I guess this post may be a little different from my others. I normally talk about my kids or what I am doing on a particular day. I am getting a bit frustrated with many things that are going on in the GOV. When I hear about something I try to make a good judgement. I feel like I am pretty down to earth and very easy to get along with. I don't put up much of a fight UNLESS it is against something I really feel important. I don't like to put up a fight but with all the things that I see where our country is headed I am wondering if I a going to have to put up some fights.

This article below really got me. I am sure most are thinking that the Pres. is just trying to help the kids and make them smarter. But I do NOT agree that this will help make our kids smarter. Well maybe their tests scores will go up but there are alot more important things that top notch scores. What about family time? What about just being a kid? I already feel that my kids spend a lot of time in school. I get Caleb on the bus at 7:40 and he doesn't get back into the house until at 4:30 p.m. SO that isn't long enough you say? After doing homework and dinner and prayer and scriptures it doens't really leave much time for anything else. What happened to kids going outside and exploring and playing and just being a plain ol' kid?

OH BUT NO. The gov. has to tell us how the kids should spend their time. I feel that they are trying to take over the responsibility of being the parents here. Can you imagine if the kids have to go to school until 7 pm? HOLY COW. I try to get my younger ones in bed at about 7:30. That leaves NO time for family and NO time to do much of anything. OH but at least our kids will be smart right?

Our summers are spent visiting family in another state. HMMM I guess that isn't important.

And I am not really concerned that some other countries go to school longer. If I wanted that I would move to that country.

I understand that many families have both parents working and it may be hard to figure out how to work around getting the kids and having people watch them but that is all part of being a parent. That shouldn't play a part in having our kids in school longer.

OK so my next point is the tax dollars for this. The kids will be in school longer which means some how we are going to have to fork out some money for the cost.

Can you tell I am against this? Can you tell I want to spend time with my kids. I want my kids to enjoy their life and not spend the entire time in school. For all those reading this think back to when you were in school? How much did you learn? How much can you even remember? You know what I remember about my growing up years? It was time spent with my family. I remember our camping trips. I remember how much my parents loved me and wanted to be with me. I remember that whatever they did we did too. I remember fishing with my family. I remember my dad taking us ice fishing. I remember a time we added on to our small mobile home. We took the logs and got them ready BY HAND. Then as a family......we all worked together to build an addition on to our home so we would have more room for our family. WE raised chickens and had a garden.

Now as far is school is concerned....I barely remember the teachers I had. I can't remember much before the 4th grade. That might just be my bad memory but what I am trying to say is that there are many more important things in life that are more important than a child sitting in school for 10 hrs. a day. So then some of you may say, Then why don't you homeschool?

I have thought about it...didn't last long....but it was a quick thought. I have my personal reasons that don't need sharing here but it doesn't have to do with spending time with my kids.

Ok this post is way too long. I just needed to get this off my chest. If it comes down to this I will fight for this to the end.


WASHINGTON -- 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.
Fifth-grader Nakany Camara is of two minds. She likes the four-week summer program at her school, Brookhaven Elementary School in Rockville, Md. Nakany enjoys seeing her friends there and thinks summer school helped boost her grades from two Cs to the honor roll.
But she doesn't want a longer school day. "I would walk straight out the door," she said.
Domonique Toombs felt the same way when she learned she would stay for an extra three hours each day in sixth grade at Boston's Clarence R. Edwards Middle School.
"I was like, "Wow, are you serious?' " she said. "That's three more hours I won't be able to chill with my friends after school."
Her school is part of a 3-year-old state initiative to add 300 hours of school time in nearly two dozen schools. Early results are positive. Even reluctant Domonique, who just started ninth grade, feels differently now. "I've learned a lot," she said.
Obama and Duncan say kids in the United States need more school because kids in other nations have more school.
"Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here," Duncan told the Associated Press. "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).