"they're preparing our children for drudgery, while their children are learning to RULE"

[Enrique]

Karen Lewis, asked to comment about Gov. Christie's plan to lengthen the school day.

Where have we heard this before? In Chicago, candidate Rahm Emanuel screamed loudly and as often as his cronies could pay protesters to hold upside down signs, that Chicago had the shortest school day in the world. He told community leaders that the spigot of funds would be turned off if they did not support his longer school day and he told the public that teachers got raises and kids got the shaft"

This works because the school day and year have never aligned themselves with the work day and year. When I asked why he was so laser-focused on the longer school day, he told me "I can't have kids on the street on 1:30". I responded - "Oh -so this is a babysitting, warehousing scheme". And that's when I got cussed out. [More on this story here - JJ.]

The school reformers playbook gets passed around like a mash note since Broad infected "leadership" and TFA-stained staffers, the politicians are always looking for something for nothing. They don't even have to come up with new talking points.

It would be lovely if they could be truly innovative and original. But that would require real critical thinking skills. And of course, their children go to private schools where they have world languages, PE, the arts (all of them), science, social studies 3 libraries and they're not in school all day or all year. They have unionized teachers who are trusted and valued.

Let's face it. They're preparing our children for the world of drudgery work, while their children learn to rule. And that's the status quo on steroids.

Karen Lewis - See more at: http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/karen-lewis-has-govchristies-number.html#sthash.6qogBWup.dpuf

[CFLDem]

1. They should lengthen the school day

and get rid of summer vacation. Not to mention beef up the curriculum instead just teaching to the test.

I'd be all for giving every HS student the ability to graduate during sophomore year and receive an associate after senior year.