Obama is now after your kids’ summer vacation

Bend over, here it comes again America! Obama “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.”

Weekends, longer days, no summer vacation? When exactly are parents supposed to have their children?

Obama’s insatiable appetite of freedom apparently includes our children’s summer vacation as well. We learn from this Associated Press propaganda piece (via Yahoo! News) that it’s what other countries do, so being “global citizens, we will too:

Obama and [Education secretary Arne 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.”

Did our children perform so well previously because we had longer school days? SHOOT NO! The inconvenient truth for Obama and his merry band of statists is that school actually taught our children something in previous decades. Education was actually important, and there wasn’t any federal involvement.

But wait – we actually spend MORE time than countries that outperform us.

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).

The AP then threw this in to cover their trail, though (thus earning the title ‘propaganda piece’).

Regardless, there is a strong case for adding time to the school day.

In the U.S., there are many examples of gains when time is added to the school day.

Several schools are going year-round by shortening summer vacation and lengthening other breaks.

Many schools are going beyond the traditional summer school model…

Notably absent is any criticism. This is not journalism, this is state-run media!