Public schools shouldn’t be about providing child care in any case.. I’m sympathetic to what the ‘author’ (TD Editor?) is saying overall but feel the problem lies with the worker-bee system we have.. three shifts per day.. shrinking social services, full-time employment that will not support a family..

The Public Education system is being demonized because it is a huge fountain of money the private Corporatists want.. that’s not to say it’s perfect.. yet stop and look at how much of what is the source of complaint in public school systems is the result of the new demands we place upon it.

Things like transportation, second language programs, food programs and yes.. day care.

Adios!

unbelievable…berniem is absolutely correct…too much education would surely make people question what this group in Washington is doing to society.

Here in California they are already planning to privatize even the public library system. But since we live in post-modern, post-ideaological times, people just march along.

The light of Athens should guide us once more!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUyib7FeuF4

Our founding fathers determined that the hoi polloi only needed to be educated to the extent that they could perform manual labor and operate simple machinery. This only required a minimal education.

A further, better education was available only to those of means, only to the children of those wealthy enough to send them to college. These chosen few were perceived as the next leaders of industry and the nation, while the greater proportion were relegated to working to death before their time.

This is the American Hierarchy, in which a better class of humans is meant to live a better class of life, and everyone else is here to serve them in some manner. The idea was to keep the masses nice and dumb, so they could be more easily controlled. Works like a charm.

Not to fret. Once again ‘god’, mysteriously as always, worked things out for the best.

Just imagine if the whole nation were employed, and kids were being given every Friday off, how many parents would be going nuts trying to get time off from work every Friday. So their lil’ darlings wouldn’t be running around loose all day each Friday, doing dope and shooting-up the neighborhood.

But hey, as it turned out we’re OK, almost no one is working, so there are lots of parents free to babysit the neighborhood kids on their days off and put some reality in their educations.

Like how to survive without jobs, money, roofs over their heads, and no self-esteem, on the streets of The Greatest Nation On Earth.

nothing less than the decline of a nation. While the people stand around and do nothing.

“WAKE UP PEOPLE!” 
Read “Common Sense 3.1” at ( http://www.revolution2.osixs.org )

First it will cheer you up, then it will make you angry.

FIGHT THE CAUSE - NOT THE SYMPTOM

The undereducated will make no fuss about unions and feel deserved of a reduced minimum wage.

The elite will continue to go to private schools and take charge of the undereducated masses.

That’s what this is all about.

The four day school week is deeply unfortunate and is a harbinger of the end of quality public education.  The American People generally do not comprehend the enormity of this change and the likely consequences, especially high priced privatization of schools.  The American duopoly is hell bent on fundamentalist capitalist solutions.  The propaganda machine aimed at demonizing teachers appears to be working.  People are acting against the own best interest, and doing so with active vigor.  This is not change, this is purposeful chaos designed to achieve an economic end.  The nave’s are earning their status.

The Department of Education is not the same as the education industry; the education industry is not the same as education; education is not learning.  As our large institutions fail, it’s time to start replacing them with autonomous institutions not dependent on elites.

These are crazy making times when there is a need for more effective education
for the children, our schools are being sacrificed while we continue our wars,
subsidize the highly profitable oil companies, protect the wealth of the wealthy,
and continue to enlarge the growing disparity of wealth.

And the dumbing down of Amerika proceeds apace!