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"Obama and Duncan say kids in the United States need more school because kids in other nations have more school."



I apologise, but what is up with that? I know our school system is total crap but by making kids spend more time in school isn't going to fix that problem. Mainly because that isn't the only problem. Sure other countries spend more time in school than we do but they also have a curiculum that is easily twice as hard as ours.

In Germany for example, students are required to start learning English at age ten, then French and Latin are introduced as they get older. By the time they graduate they are fluent in four languages. The only language American students learn is the ones they choose to learn. Also, in Germany students are required to take classes such as physics and chemistry. Those require higher math classes so the students are in higher math classe. Most of my friends in college are still in lower math classes and are struggling with those. I struggle just trying to do college algebra. If we were required to learn more math in high school then we wouldn't have those problems.

Perhaps the thing that bugs me the most is the fact that we are not required to learn about foreign countries at all. My high school dropped the world history class and refused to bring it back, even though about a hundred or so students wanted to take it. How unfair is that to us? I wanted to take that class really badly. We had a culture class but it was only class a semester so hardly anybody got to take it. I finally got to take it in my senior year. Other than that there wasn't really any class that taught about other countries unless you took a foreign language.

I think instead of trying to make students spend more time in school Obama should be working to make sure we actually learn in school and make the curiculum harder so that we learn more. It won't matter if we stay longer in school if we aren't learning anything in the first place.

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Xzavier
14:01 Sep 28 2009

Amen sister! It amazes me that a Harvard law educated person can't the real problem for all his political mumbo jumbo.

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