There Goes the Youth Vote: Obama Wants More, Longer School Days

As a person working in education and a former school student I have to say that this is one of the dumbest requests I've heard in at least a week. President Obama looks like he will bow to the radical left-wing of the Education lobby and may increase not only the school day, but also the length of the school year.

In all, we might be looking at 200, 10-hour days instead of our 180, 7-hour days.

I'm sure that the school kids will be thrilled.

And of course the Education Secretary believes that those damn rural students are dragging us down:

"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.

How about instead of overworking teachers and students and creating a large disservice for school districts and parents we actually work to reform the current system. In current schools, grades are slowly being marginalized, school curriculums not based as much on achievements, and teachers are often overworked.

How about making it easier to become a teacher to include people with Master's Degrees without certification? How about breaking the major Unions into smaller organization, just like the government breaks up business monopolies.

How about cutting back on left-wing indoctrination instead of adding in more time. If you simply reduce the time in which teachers will teach students that the Japanese internment camps were equivalent to the Holocaust, you could get a lot of time.

Obama, what are you doing?

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Obama Threatens North Korea with "Strongly Worded Letter" if they Fail to Stop Nuclear Weapons Program

Washington- In what officials are calling a “break” from the normally “level-headed” President, Barack Obama has threatened North Korea with a strongly worded letter should they continue developing Nuclear Weapons.

“We will not sit idly by as North Korea threatens its neighbors with war and weapons,” President Obama said Wednesday at a press conference in Mesa, Arizona. “Therefore, we plan to send Pyongyang and Mr. Jong-Il a letter if he should not heed our words.”

“The benefits of accepting our wishes are great,” Obama continued. “We offer economic support, we will not impose sanctions, and we offer our hand in friendship. But if not, we will send a very strongly worded letter that will not please anyone in North Korea.”

Obama continued, “I am speaking to you directly, Mr. Jong-Il, you will be red in the face when you read this letter.”

As tensions rise between North Korea, South Korea, and the United States, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has travelled to Seoul, South Korea to talk about a possible power struggle for Pyongyang.

While there, Clinton has denounced the Bush administration’s handling of the 1994 Agreed Framework between the United States and North Korea. The agreement, which ended North Korea’s bid continue its plutonium-based weapons program, was ended in 2006. At the time, the Bush administration accused Pyongyang of sustain a highly enriched Uranium Program.

“As a result, she said, the North had restarted and accelerated its plutonium program, allowing it to build a nuclear device that it had detonated in 2006.”