Our President won't respond

New lows are being reached by the Global Warming Alarmists.  They are now directly fear mongering children as well as appealing to children to financially support their cause.

I guess I should not be surprised, but I am disgusted.

xtnyoda, shalomed

Teaching "Creationism" called "Child Abuse"

The good lady calls evolution a fact.  News flash: Evolution is not fact but rather it is still a theory ... and there is a world of difference between the two.

Anyone who tells children that God – literally – created the world in seven days 6,000 years ago is guilty of perverting education.

The truth – and education should be above all else a search for truth – is that the world, and the flora and fauna in it, including homo sapiens, evolved over millions of years.

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And as for God. Well, he was man’s name for the almost unimaginable force which drove (drives) the process of evolution and change – a personification. So, if you want a religious approach, the science and the creation myth complement each other. You don’t have to argue the literal and pretty absurd case for an old man in the sky striding about making decisions for and about human beings.

Good educators – parents, teachers and others – ensure that children learn to think and reason for themselves. They don’t thrust propaganda and bigotry at them or withhold facts and information.

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I am not a religious believer or church goer. But I am a great admirer of much of what is in The Bible and other religious texts. They contain fine poetry, a great deal of human truth in many of the stories and an encapsulation of the cultures they sprang from and influenced – all of which I want children and young people to be led to think about. We can all learn a lot from them.

But we must never indoctrinate or permit our institutions to use indoctrination techniques. 

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Real Education is about open-ended questioning and challenging the mind. It also involves encouraging the learners eventually to move way beyond their teachers so that each generation explores new ground. Blinkered, limited, propagandist, religious thinking attempts to hold back or stop that process.

Brainwashing is a form of child abuse. It should have no place in any place of learning.

I'm sure the good lady doesn't realize that what she is promoting as open minded education is in fact brain-washing and qualifies as child abuse.  To force a child to believe in evolution is just as much indoctrination and brainwashing as she claims the Christians are doing. 

They are taking the next step in Brittan toward a totally secular society.  I think they shall fail.

xtnyoda, shalomed

Bashing Christian Students and the Bible

Here is some good old Christian bashing from those who adhere to the idea of openness to discuss differing ideas and beliefs.

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/anti-bullying-speaker-curses-mocks-christian-teens.html

As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy assed.”

The speaker was Dan Savage, founder of the "It Gets Better" project, an anti-bullying campaign that has reached more than 40 million viewers ..... Savage was supposed to be delivering a speech about anti-bullying at the National High School Journalism Conference sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. But it turned into an episode of Christian-bashing.

Rick Tuttle, the journalism advisor for Sutter Union High School in California, was among several thousand people in the audience. He said they thought the speech was one thing – but it turned into something else.

“I thought this would be about anti-bullying,” Tuttle told Fox news. “It turned into a pointed attack on Christian beliefs.”

Tuttle said a number of his students were offended by Savage’s remarks – and some decided to leave the auditorium.  “It became hostile,” he said. “It felt hostile as we were sitting in the audience – especially towards Christians who espouse beliefs that he was literally taking on.”

.... They interviewed a 17-year-old girl who was one of students who walked out of the auditorium.

“The first thing he told the audience was, ‘I hope you’re all using birth control,’” she told CitizenLink. “he said there are people using the Bible as an excuse for gay bullying, because it says in Leviticus and Romans that being gay is wrong. Right after that, he said we can ignore all the (expletive deleted) in the Bible.”

As the teenagers were walking out, Tuttle said that Savage heckled them and called them pansy-assed.

“You can tell the Bible guys in the hall they can come back now because I’m done beating up the Bible,” Savage said as other students hollered and cheered. “It’s funny as someone who is on the receiving end of beatings that are justified by the Bible how pansy-assed people react when you push back.” ......

Ah yes, the tolerant left dealing with children.


xtnyoda, shalomed

Lorax, the Anti-Industrialist for kids

Who knew that Dr. Seuss was an anti-industrialist and a global warming alarmist?

Evidently Universal Pictures knows ...

LOS ANGELES – The Lorax, perhaps the most famous anti-industrial crusader from children's literature, is about to become a big-time corporate spokesman.

With a host of commercial tie-ins — albeit for eco-friendly products —Universal Pictures will begin promoting "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" this month. The animated movie, set for release March 2 in North America, is about a creature who "speaks for the trees" and fights rampant industrialism in a retelling of the Dr. Seuss children's book first published in 1971.

The studio's nearly 70 launch partners — including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Whole Foods Market (WFM)— are seeking to latch onto the Lorax's nature-friendly message. ......

USA Today article

And all the while Europe and northern Asia are freezing to death under extreme cold weather conditions, as well as other parts of our world.

God, have mercy.

xtnyoda, shalomed

Presidential alarming of children

Now ... the President of the United States of America ... has joined the ranks of those pushing the propaganda of "man made climate change" (anthropogenic global warming) ... down the throats of children.



President Barack Obama told Scholastic News Kid Reporters during a TV interview that one of the "greatest challenges facing" their generation is “climate change.”

"Another big challenge that your generation is going to face is the environmental challenge,” Obama stated, after citing the economy as another big issue. The interview was conducted by Scholastic News kid reporters as part of the new program on the “Challenges Facing America's Youth.”

Obama explained: “There are some big challenges around climate change. The temperature of the planet is getting warmer because of the pollution that we are sending up in the air, the carbon that we are releasing.” He added: “That is something we are going to have to really focus on.”...

Obama also claimed that man-made global warming was “causing changing weather patterns.” "In places like Florida you may be more vulnerable to hurricanes, in other areas we have seen more drought,” he explained.

“We have got to get started dealing with this issue. and we have to make sure your generation finds better ways to use energy more efficiently so that we are not sending out as much pollution into the air and that is something we are going to have to really focus on," Obama added....

This is a sad day in American history.

xtnyoda, shalomed

Government's propaganda of children and climate

The government's "Energy Star" agency has started a major campaign targeting children with their "global warming" mantra.



Brazen evil and child abuse coming from this government agency.

Shame on you "Energy Star."

You are no star ... you are a black hole ... attempting to suck the life out of every child and their futures.

xtnyoda, shalomed

Australia is officially in the "child abuse" business

This is as evil as evil gets friends...

PRIMARY school children are being terrified by lessons claiming climate change will bring "death, injury and destruction" to the world unless they take action.
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Climate change as a "Doomsday scenario" is being taught in classrooms across Australia.

Resource material produced by the Gillard government for primary school teachers and students states climate change will cause "devastating disasters".

Australian National University's Centre for the Public Awareness of Science director Dr Sue Stocklmayer said climate change had been portrayed as "Doomsday scenarios with no way out" ..... "(Children) feel incredibly despondent and helpless in the face of all this negative information," she said. "To put all of this before our children ... is one of the most appalling things we can do to (them).

Child psychologist Kimberley O'Brien also said the language of climate change should be "toned down". "(Educators) should stick to the facts," she said. "They should be aware that kids do have nightmares."

Psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg called on educators to be "more circumspect and present both sides (of the climate-change debate). When you repeat things over and over to young people who don't have the cognitive maturity and emotional maturity to process this stuff, you end up creating unnecessary anxiety," he said.

Federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett said the government would not stop the teaching of climate science, despite moves in Britain for the subject to be withdrawn.

In a video on climate change funded by the state government, one teacher from a public school in Sydney's southwest explained: "Students are being bombarded from all sides about climate change ... it can be a very scary thing (for) a child."

Australian news dot com

There is probably a special place in Hell for those that would target children with fear and terror for a political agenda. For those politicians in Australia doing this ... welcome to Hell.

xtnyoda, shalomed

More Global Warming Child Abuse

Andrew Weaver, global warming alarmist, has decided that since he can't convince gray headed engineers that know real science, then one must turn to trying to convince youth with his propaganda.

Tom Nelson's post

Andrew Weaver apologizes for being late for the interview but explains he was giving a lecture to his daughter’s class at Lambrick Park secondary school in Victoria.

“It may be a provocative statement, but I’ll say it anyways: I’m fed up speaking with the stereotypical angry, retired, grey-haired engineer,” explained the University of Victoria professor and global warming guru.

“They’re stuck in their ways and think everything can be fixed and that this is not a big problem.”

Since 1989 Weaver has been studying climate issues and, more recently, trying to get governments to act decisively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, largely from burning of fossil fuels. He’s now come to the conclusion that the federal government isn’t interested, and that it’s time to concentrate on Canada’s youth — the next generation of leaders.....

At least he is admitting that adults are hard to convince of the hype. That is good news, and really rather refreshing to hear from the former Noble Prize winner ... winning his prize with the global warming lie.

So .... you are turning to children? Don't you remember the disappointment in children when they learn that there really is no Santa Clause? This one's going to be even harder to defend Mr. Weaver ... at least Santa brought toys instead of robbing children for a lie.

xtnyoda, shalomed

NASA targets children with Climate Kids website

NASA has officially entered the tax payer funded, child abuse business.

NASA's "Climate Kids"

(CNSNews.com) – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Web site network includes “Climate Kids: NASA’s Eyes on the Earth,” which use cartoons, games, and other activities to teach children about man-made global warming and climate change.

According to NASA’s budget request for fiscal year 2012, totaling $18.7 billion, the agency would dedicate $145.8 million to educational programs. The “Climate Kids” site is supported through NASA’s educational programs, according to a spokesman with the agency.

“Climate Kids” is part of a NASA-affiliated Web site operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a research and development and NASA field center that is managed by the California Institute of Technology.

One of the features on the children’s pages is a “Climate Tales” cartoon, “Adventures on a Changing Planet: Will our heroes ever find their way home?”

The cartoon features a polar bear and a fish. In the cartoon, some of the following dialogue occurs:

“Hey, it looks like your ice is melting,” the fish says.

“I had to swim for miles to find a chunk of ice to climb onto,” says the bear. “If I don’t get to rest once in a while I won’t have enough energy to hunt my next meal.”

“All the ice is melting,” the bear says.

After being transported to the South American rain forest, the fish and the polar bear meet a monkey.

“Where did all the trees go?” the bear asks.

“Funny story,” the monkey says. “The humans cut them down and burned them.”

“And now it’s a trash dump,” says the bear.

The monkey informs the bear that the humans tried to grow crops and “it didn’t take long for the humans to use all the rest of the life in the soil.”

“After a few years the humans moved on, leaving a dead and lifeless landscape,” says the monkey......

So ... we are scaling back the mission of NASA ... moving away from the exploration of Outer Space ... and moving her mission toward convincing children that humanity is the one great threat to our planet?

This is child abuse and criminal propaganda of children ... at the expense of tax payers ... for the express purpose of political profiteering ... and control of the human race.

Never been anymore evil invention by Satan than the global warming scam ... and more and more its target is children ... for the future.

We will speak the truth to power.

xtnyoda, shalomed

More Global Warming Child Abuse

You know a "movement" is in serious trouble ... and they know they are in serious trouble ... when they start using children to attempt to accomplish what they could not accomplish .... even with multiple millions of tax payer dollars to fund their failed efforts.

From "What's Up With That?

Failing to make his case, James Hansen uses children as legal pawns
Posted on May 10, 2011 by Anthony Watts

From LiveScience, another reason for NASA to fire Jame Hansen now:

Here’s the basis for his actions in a nutshell:

If carbon dioxide emissions aren’t reduced in time, the Earth will pass a tipping point with irreversible, catastrophic consequences, including the disintegration of ice sheets and large-scale extinction of species, according to the scientific analysis Hansen provided to the lawsuit.

I think Dr. Hansen has lost it. Earth has had higher CO2 concentrations several times in its history and it didn’t head to runaway roasting. So far, this all hinges on positive feedbacks, and there doesn’t seem to be much conclusive evidence for it. Here’s what Pielke Sr. has to say about CO2 as a control knob for Earth’s climate system.

Read Dr. Hansen’s latest non peer reviewed paper where he justifies to himself the use of kids as legal pawns here:

The Case for Young People and Nature: A Path to a Healthy, Natural, Prosperous Future

Thank you Mr. Watts for bringing this to our attention.

xtnyoda, shalomed

Global Warming Rap

This is just too funny to pass up. It's a "hot" new "rap" song telling kids to ride the bus instead of their cars, etc. to save our planet from ... global warming.

Following are the actual words. You can go to the link to listen to this masterpiece of modern technology.

Come on and Click it, flip it, turn the handle to the right, turn off the water, twist the handle real tight. Slip on your sneakers, lace em up tight, leave the car parked you know that’s alright. Public transportation is the way to go, it’s one of the ways to keep emissions low, you can ride your bike, instead of the car, if we save on fuel then we’ll all go far.

I said Click it, flip it, turn the handle to the right, turn off the water, twist the handle real tight. Slip on your sneakers, lace em up tight, leave the car parked you know that’s alright. Public transportation is the way to go, it’s one of the ways to keep emissions low, you can ride your bike, instead of the car, if we save on fuel then we’ll all go far.

You can pick up paper and recycle it too, and there are many other things that you can do. You can click off the game boy, flip off the light, while you’re brushing your teeth, turn the handle to the right. Close the fridge door - keep it shut tight, no food has been added since the middle of the night. A 5 minute shower is all that’s needed to keep energy from being depleted. A long sleeve sweater is what I know – will keep you toasty and the fuel bills low. Plant a tree in your neighborhood, besides giving shade you know it looks real good.

I said Click it, flip it, turn the handle to the right, turn off the water, twist the handle real tight. Slip on your sneakers, lace em up tight, leave the car parked you know that’s alright. Public transportation is the way to go, it’s one of the ways to keep emissions low, you can ride your bike, instead of the car, if we save on fuel then we’ll all go far.

The USA is where we are to kick a new trend and to raise the bar. The climate is changing and that’s a fact, bears don’t know when to take a nap, On top of that it won’t be cool when the flood waters rise and mosquitoes rule. It’s time to get off the couch and start to move.

Come on and Click it, flip it, turn the handle to the right, turn off the water, twist the handle real tight. Slip on your sneakers, lace em up tight, leave the car parked you know that’s alright. Public transportation is the way to go, it’s one of the ways to keep emissions low, you can ride your bike, instead of the car, if we save on fuel then we’ll all go far.

Come on and Click it, flip it, turn the handle to the right.

Now ... I wonder how much CO2 was released through using the evil modern technology to produce this classic?

xtnyoda, shalomed

Planned Parenthood facilitating child exploitation

Independent investigators are cracking another corrupt institution ... Planned Parenthood.

This is disgusting. This is criminal. This is evil personified in a taxpayer funded organization.

Mr. Attorney General ... we await your investigation and prosecution.

pundit and pundette



Bombshell video: Planned Parenthood and pimp work together to exploit girls for profit

Caught on Tape: Planned Parenthood Aids Pimp’s Underage Sex Ring

NEW JERSEY – February 1, 2011– A Planned Parenthood manager in New Jersey coaches a man and a woman posing as sex traffickers how to secure secret abortions, STD testing, and contraception for their female underage sex slaves, and make their whole operation “look as legit as possible” in an undercover video released this morning.

Clinic manager Amy Woodruff, LPN, of Planned Parenthood Central New Jersey’s Perth Amboy center, warns the pimp and his prostitute to have their trafficked underage girls lie about their age to avoid mandatory reporting laws, promising, “even if they lie, just say, ‘Oh he's the same age as me, 15,’…it's just that mainly 14 and under we have to, doesn't matter if their partner's the same age, younger, whatever, 14 and under we have to report.” She says, “For the most part, we want as little information as possible.”

Woodruff also recommends how the pimp can get his prostitutes cheaper contraception by claiming they are “students”: “If they're minors, put down that they're students. Yeah, just kind of play along that they’re students--we want to make it look as legit as possible.”

If one of the young trafficked girls needs an abortion, Woodruff refers the pimp and prostitute to the Metropolitan Medical Association, where “their protocols aren’t as strict as ours and they don’t get audited the same way that we do.” The prostitute in the video asks how long after the abortion until the girls can have sex again, and when Woodruff says “minimum of 2 weeks,” she asks what sex acts the girls could still do to make money. Woodruff advises, “Waist up, or just be that extra action walking by” to advertise sex to potential clients.

Sex trafficking is punishable under federal law and carries a potential life sentence. The new video is released by Live Action, a pro-life new media organization led by 22-year-old Lila Rose. The video airs just days after Planned Parenthood’s leadership suspected the sting operation and sought an FBI probe of Live Action in order to deter the release of the exposé. Live Action is sending full footage to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, NJ Attorney General Paula Dow, officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and other law enforcement officials, requesting federal and state investigations into Planned Parenthood’s sexual abuse and sex trafficking cover up.....

God have mercy.

xtnyoda, shalomed

NASA targets children with Climate Kids website

It is disappointing to see that NASA has now officially entered into the abuse of children to promote the propaganda of the global warming alarmists... so disappointing.

full report at Climate Quotes

..... You don't get that impression from NASA's 'Climate Kids' website. I told myself I wouldn't use the word propaganda in this post, but the website is so one-sided and it is so obviously designed to appeal to emotion I don't know what else to call it. Go ahead and visit before I describe it and see if you agree.....

When you start fear-mongering children you've reached the bottom of the barrel.

PBS should produce a new investigative documentary titled

"NASA... how to go from the heights of putting men on the moon.... to the depths of manipulating children in one generation."

Or NBC... or ABC... or CBS could produce it. Even FOX could for that matter.

NASA.... if you read this.... you just can't get any lower than this. Congratulations.

xtnyoda, shalomed

An old saying goes that "misery loves company".....

.... and the same could be said of sin.... and Hollywood is looking for ever younger company.

FOX news report

Prime Time TV 'Objectifies and Fetishizes' Underage Girls, Study Says

LOS ANGELES – Long gone are the days when Marcia Brady’s sweet smile and Winnie Cooper’s brains and beauty were how television represented teen-age girls.

According to a new study conducted by the Parents Television Council (PTC), Hollywood is shockingly obsessed with sexualizing teen girls, to the point where underage female characters are shown participating in an even higher percentage of sexual situations than their adult counterparts: 47 percent to 29 percent respectively.

PTC’s report, entitled “New Target: A Study of Teen Female Sexualization on Primetime TV” is based on a content analysis drawn from the 25 most popular shows in the 12-17 demographic throughout the 2009-2010 television season.

“The results from this report show Tinseltown’s eagerness to not only objectify and fetishize young girls, but to sexualize them in such a way that real teens are led to believe their sole value comes from their sexuality," said PTC President Tim Winter. "This report is less about the shocking numbers that detail the sickness of early sexualization in our entertainment culture and more about the generation of young girls who are being told how society expects them to behave."

“Storylines on the most popular shows among teens are sending the message to our daughters that being sexualized isn’t just acceptable, it should be sought after,” Winter said. “It is outrageous that TV executives have made it their business to profit off of programs that depict teen girls blissfully being sexualized by casual partners.” .....

Now... for all you parents that tend to use the television as a baby sitter... I think we need to have a little chat...

xtnyoda, shalomed

"Green Santa" or No Christmas

One more round for the child abuse/global warming criminals.

This time it's coming out of England from a group called Chief Productions.... and they are telling children that if they don't "green-up" then Santa won't be coming for Christmas... no kidding.

North West Media

Manchester indie, Chief Productions is warning children to think green - or Christmas may have to be cancelled...

“Climatologist Dr Maurice Bergs has made a truly shocking discovery! As a result of global warming, Santa's runway is melting, which means that his sleigh and reindeers may not be able to take off this year – Christmas may have to be cancelled! The only hope remaining lies with the children of the United Kingdom. By making green pledges, they could help to save the runway and, most importantly, make sure that they get their presents on Christmas Day!”

Go HERE for the Green Santa propaganda video

One more brick in the alarmist's house of evil... perpetrated against children.

This is child abuse.

xtnyoda, shalomed

More child abuse this past week from the global warming alarmists... they just can't seem to keep kids out of their sights.

Here is a video that exploits children for the money grubbing alarmist's cause... get more federal grant money to try and convince us all of global warming so we will joyfully surrender our carbon footprints for the sake of making more money for the government subsidized (our tax dollars) green energy industry... fledgling one I might add... if not for our tax dollars.



And here is an on the ground photo of their scaremongering efforts as shared on What's Up With That's blog site. He has some informative commentary and more flicks about the atrocious event aimed at kids.



Real impressive stuff.

Not only have they no brains... they have no hearts.

xtnyoda, shalomed

Nebraska has led our nation in a big step toward sanity with their new "Fetal Pain" law.

Fetal pain law called historic

Posted on Oct 20, 2010

WASHINGTON (BP)--A new law in Nebraska could prove to be historic in the battle against legal abortion in the United States, some pro-lifers are predicting.

The Nebraska law -- the Pain-capable Unborn Child Protection Act prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with narrow exceptions, -- took effect Oct. 15.

The law establishes a new standard in abortion bans: Rather than setting the benchmark at fetal viability, which can be 22 to 24 weeks, Nebraska's law utilizes evidence that an unborn child experiences pain at 20 weeks for its guideline.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, described the new law's enforcement as "a historic and celebratory moment for those who work to protect mothers and unborn children. This is the first time in history that a law recognizing fetal pain has been enacted. This new law represents the next wave of momentum for the pro-life movement and is a major step toward a post-Roe future.

"The abortion industry tries to discredit efforts like this because the concept of fetal pain destroys their strategy of depicting a developing baby as a blob of tissue," Perkins said. "Acknowledging the truth of fetal pain recognizes the truth that a baby is an unborn person."

Abortion-rights advocates oppose the law, and American doctors appear divided on when unborn children can feel pain.

Mary Spaulding Balch, the National Right to Life Committee's director of state legislation, said, "At and after 20 weeks, unborn children have pain receptors throughout their body and nerves linking them to the brain. Continuing medical research has shown that the cortex is not essential to experience pain."

The law permits exemptions only for serious physical, not mental, threats. According to the law, it must be determined that "the pregnant woman had a condition which so complicated her medical condition as to necessitate the abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, or the basis of the determination that it was necessary to preserve the life of an unborn child."

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, a Republican, signed the legislation into law in April after the legislature approved the bill in a 44-5 vote.

Sen. Mike Johanns, R.-Neb., and Rep. Chris Smith, R.-N.J., have introduced similar, though not as far-reaching, bills in Congress.
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Compiled by Tom Strode, Washington bureau chief for Baptist Press.

I think I can hear groans coming from the "Culture of Death" right now.

xtnyoda, shalomed

The global warming alarmists have stooped to an unbelievable low in trying to scare people into following their mantra of evil.

This is child abuse on top of it all.

Disgusting.

xtnyoda, shalomed

H/T Climate Depot

and Brutally Honest

xtnyoda, on July 28th, reported on our new Education Secretaries desire to have our children in school for around 12 months a year...


Now the President... less than 2 months later... starts to move in lock step with what the Secretary wants.

Yahoo news report

Obama presses for longer school years

WASHINGTON – Barely into the new school year, President Barack Obama issued a tough-love message to students and teachers on Monday: Their year in the classroom should be longer, and poorly performing teachers should get out....

... U.S. schools through high school offer an average of 180 instruction days per year, according to the Education Commission of the States, compared to an average of 197 days for lower grades and 196 days for upper grades in countries with the best student achievement levels... "That month makes a difference," the president said.....

It does make a difference who gets appointed to these offices. And rest assured that each and every one is appointed for a reason.

This administration wants our children in the government classrooms... out of their homes... so the government can... teach... them.

Consider and ponder.

xtnyoda, shalomed

Our new Chicago bred educator... that made Chicago's public schools the "city on a hill" for American education... wants our kids in school 12 or so hours a day... all year long... 7 days a week.

Daily Caller
Education secretary calls for 12-hour school days, longer school years

If Education Secretary Arne Duncan has his way, kids would be spending a lot more time at school — and a three-month summer would be a thing of the past.

Duncan joked with attendees at a luncheon at the National Press Club Tuesday in Washington that he would like schools to stay open 13 months out of the year. Then he told the audience of over 100 that he seriously supports longer school hours.

“In all seriousness, I think schools should be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week, 11-12 months of the year,” Duncan said. “This is not just more of the same. There would be a whole variety of after-school programs. Obviously academics would be at the heart of that. But you top it off with dancing, art, drama, music, yearbook, robotics, activities for older siblings and parents, ESL classes.”

He continued by explaining that the American school calendar is antiquated and must be modified so that American students can compete at the highest levels internationally.

“Most people realize that our current day is based on the agrarian economy, and we don’t have too many kids working out in the fields nowadays,” Duncan said. “Schools in countries that are beating us are going to school 25-30 days more than us. If you practice basketball five times a week, you’re gonna be better than the people who practice three times a week.”....

“As you guys know, our world has changed, our economy has changed,” said Duncan. “The days of telling kids to go home at 2:30 and having mom there with a peanut butter sandwich, those days are gone. Whether it’s a single parent working one, two, three jobs or two parents working, the hours from 3 o’clock to 7 o’clock are a huge anxiety, and that’s why we have to keep our schools open longer.”.....

Since the Public Education system is in such a state of failure according to Mr. Duncan... then that's just what we need... much more of it.

What they are of course after is "State Controlled Kids" with both parents working their tails off to pay the State to raise their kids... excuse me... raise the State's kids... just like the State wants them.

Thanks Mr. Duncan for so clearly stating exactly what we have been saying you progressives have desired all along.

I however, don't think you are going to succeed... you are just showing your hand.

xtnyoda, shalomed