How Much Is Too Much Mr. Obama?

How much is too much? That is the question every American should be asking of President Obama considering his propensity for exceeding his Constitutional authority. We’ve had bailouts for auto manufacturers, the firing of a corporate CEO, rebates for cars deemed “acceptable” by his benevelent Lordship, and he and his fellow leftists are currently trying hard to pass a Carbon Tax (Cap and Trade) and Socialized Medicine on an even grander scale than we already have (and which is failing miserably too). So what is next?

Well, since the Federal Government already unconstitutionally interfers with the education of of children (Department of Education – a power found nowhere in the Constitution) I guess he has decided to tell us our kids need to be in school more. At least that is according to this story from the AP:

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.”

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“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.

Obama bases his call on outdated and long discredited lies:

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 AP. “I want to just level the playing field.”

But as the AP points out, this is not entirely true. I guess to shout, “YOU LIE!” at the President here would be appropriate:

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).

The problem? Well, I think it is obvious. It is obviously not the time kids spend in school but what they are being taught during that time. In recent years we have all become well aware of superfilous crap that is going on in our schools and time spent teaching things that either have no place being taught in school or that are way over taught in our schools for the sake of inclusiveness. It is also a problem with teachers that spend time teaching things that have no business being taught for the sake of teaching some agenda or another.

Obviously if students in other countries are learning better than students in the United States in less hours then that means that we need to spend the extra hours we waste on needless subjects and senseless politically correct instructions on important real world skills like math and science. And maybe we need to look at the qualifications of those teaching these subjects as well. Let’s cut the crap and get down to business. And oh yeah, kicking the troublemakers out would be another good step to take. Seems like every time we turn around we hear stories about kids who are disrupting classes allowed to continue on doing such and when they do get kicked out the parents threaten to sue.  Then maybe let’s also work hard to get the federal government’s grubby little hands out of the education system since they don’t have the power given to them to act in such a manner.

Will anyone however call Mr. Obama on his latest lie about the time our students need to learn basic skills? Very few probably but I most certainly will.  Because the fact of the matter is that his lies about our children’s education is just the setup for more government control of it.