School Year Extension

I am not saying that with more days of school kids will have the same knowledge, I am not saying that the kids will be on the same page I am saying that teachers will be able to teach the students with that extra time. That is irrefutable evidence because with more time that automatically means for teaching time, or will I need to provide more evidence for that as well because that is what you are saying. Everything needs evidence even when most of this information is common knowledge. Let's take this analogy, I am running one mile. I get 5 minutes to do it. How many people can run a mile in 5 minutes? I would have to say the physically fit students and adults only. If you aren't physically fit you will be struggling to get there, just like in school. If you were to have 15 or 30 minutes this will be an easy task. If you have more time to cover parts you just don't get, for instance me at math, I am not terrible but I can do bad but if I had extra time I could easily get these subjects down and move on to the next section with ease. Now don't take this as, HE IS ONLY WANTING EXTRA TIME FOR HIMSELF! That is not true. I know several students just in my class who are the smartest and average students who would like extra time in school to get those tough subjects down. And I want you to tell me what teacher, whose job it is to get these students ready for life, who wants a student to now know something. Even if it is evil history such as the racism of the 1800's and 1900's or even the dreadful holocaust which can make people sick to their stomachs at the facts and pictures that may go along with it. It is a major part of history and if a teacher has to graze over any subject is bad. You say students learn their favorite subjects on their own time? This is true like I knew a lot about ancient history such as mythology and ancient Greece but I learned more than I even knew about them both this year in school than my entire 3-5 years of studying it. I even made new questions about them as well so even though a student may want to learn about something that isn't in the school program for that year they can learn more about them with the help of maybe 15+ students in a class who already know about that subject and will help you narrow down your research by helping you learn something you want. The metaphor 2 heads is better than 1 is right in this case and with 15+ heads all pooling in on 1 subject a few of them may know by heart is very good. It is good to do at home research but having the help of an adult who may have gone through the even such as the Vietnam War would be better than just reading up on it. Now not all teachers are war veterans but in case they are that can be a help. All right you seem to not be getting my point on DROPPING OUT. As we all should know without a HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA you can't go to college. It is a simple fact! I already know you can take college courses in high school. I know if you drop out you can get a GED but in Russia at age 16 you can study for a university and go to learn trade skills. In America you need 4 English courses, 2 science and 3 maths. If this checks out you need at least 4 years of High School to get 4 English courses. You are saying I am forcing my ways on this debate with saying sports camps are useless but isn't it you who said they should learn on their own time! It is called Physical Education so learning sports is just like learning Math. The can get together with their friends and play baseball, basketball, football, ect. This is much easier than getting together and learn a new language. This is again a fact. I can learn basketball and how to shoot in a day than learn how to speak for 5 minutes with someone in France and sound smart or at least mediocre for them. We can afford this and if you are calling this a recession well you are wrong. The recession was over early last year. We just thought it was still on because we were still "low". We were considered growing over the last 3 years in 2010 and growing higher than before. The only thing that could have been considered a recession would be the house market. Now I will give more reasons why we can afford this. Again the main reason about how we spend almost all of our money, not just government, TAX PAYER money of our military. I don't know about you but how would you like to have 27 percent of our tax payer money on this miltary, 21 percent on our health(which is good), but a measly 5 percent on our Education. We have 9 percent on Military debt for crying out loud. Our military debt is more important than our EDUCATION. How is that reflecting out ways of life! Not blaming Obama on this but it is his budget that is doing this. He increased our education budget by 7.5 percent. YAH, this is amazing. Sure, it is only 3.5 billion dollars. We are still spending 708 billion on military. Now here is something not military related. Our prisons are secure right. I wonder why? In California they spend 15.7 billion on their prisons. Lets see their Education spending. 15.3 billion. Yeah, this is again showing our great support for our education! Why are we doing this too our country! You say I haven't been proving while longer school years are better but I have. I have said this in almost every round. Longer school years are better for teachers and student. They help them learn more. If we learn more we are better suited for life. I will give you a video about how stupid an American woman is. She was on a game show and she knew it. She had multiple choice answers and she actually completed High School and she got this question wrong, what animal shoots ink when threatened. She said owl and octopus was the correct answer. I am giving multiple videos so we know it isn't a one time incident. The last one truly shows how stupid some people are. I agree standardized tests don't show the overall I.Q. of a person because they don't ask you how to fix a car or how to make a plane but they do see how smart you are in major subjects that are used in almost every field of work, especially Math and English. If someone doesn't know Math or English they aren't making it far in life. I know that for a fact. You are saying that again we can't pay for it, and I said it was Obama who put the little 7.5 percent in the Education budget but it is he who wants to extend the school year and says it is money well spent. If the president wants it done that is a good reason. I mean people voted for him so they must like his ideas right? I guess so because he is still a good candidate for 2012. It is just that people hate him for what the Bush Administration did to put us in the hole we were in. Now for free time, unless the students truly try to learn during the summer they will retain all their knowledge which is what maybe 10 or a little more of the students actually do. In Sylvan commercials students lose too much during the summer. I have little room left so this is it. If summer vacation was a month or two shorter kids would be able to do better on No Child Left Behind and all Standardized tests since they will REMEMBER ALMOST EVERYTHING. That is my case in a nutshell. With less vacation time in the summer will equal more time to retain the knowledge so that is the best point in this entire round for me. It is a proven fact as shown in other nations and they have out of school programs for this so it must be true. I hope you will all see reason and vote for education. http://www.thedailybeast.com... http://www.wsws.org... http://education-portal.com... http://www.economist.com... http://www.pactinc.org... http://www.youtube.com... http://www.youtube.com... http://www.youtube.com...