"Class, today we will learn how to make kool-aid..."

Obama wants to increase the school day to make American kids smarter even though students in some of the "smartest" countries like Thailand actually spend fewer hours in class. It's not the amount of time in class Obama, its the QUALITY of the time spent in class and the quality of our education system. You want smarter kids? Take the power away from the Democratic owned teacher's union and promote teachers based on RESULTS instead of seniority. Get rid of crappy unmotivated and lazy teachers that are currently protected by the union.

May I suggest you start with my old high school politics teacher? She actually brought in pictures to share of the mantle in her home...and the collection of "artistic" glass bongs upon it. She also kept pictures of her home bathroom in her desk drawer to show us since it was decorated with framed drawings of naked women to "celebrate the female shape". She was a dirty, smelly hippie that smoked across from the school soccer fields in a (minimal) covering of bushes despite the "no smoking on school grounds" policy. She would even give us assignments to do in class just to keep us busy while she went out for a quick puff just outside one of the back doors of our school. She had blue teeth and long, straight, black/grey witch like hair and wore it parted down the middle like all good fist pumping "I am woman hear me roar" types did in the 1960's...except it was the 90's.

She taught us a lot of life lessons, about the importance of protesting government and about how we need to "break free from the systematic control of rich, white men" (a direct quote that she used often). She taught us to protect ourselves in a divorce by living with separate bank accounts from our spouses from the start of a relationship. Come to think about it...about the only topic she never really got around to covering was politics. She spent more time talking about her personal life and telling us stories about how she rebel-roused during her teen years than she did teaching the Constitution, which is one of the reasons so many of my which school friends defend socialism today.

So Obama, if you want to improve the education system...let's take the Democratic party out of it. Let parents teach morals and values instead of liberal teachers. Create a system based on rewarding results instead of on union contributions.

Pay based on effort and results has never been important to the Democrats...after all, the Democratic motto is "We aim to try".