Obama Nixes Traditional Long School Summer Vacations

Personally, I think school days are already too long, and are really designed to only meet the needs of working parents.

Personally, I think school days are already too long, and are really designed to only meet the needs of working parents.

I don't think that every child in the country should be forced to forego summer vacation because some children have bad home situations. The bad home situations, e.g. being too poor to buy food, should be addressed separately. Children should have a considerable amount of time off to just be kids and not be treated as though they were adult workers only smaller.

What issue is there to address? Your imagined outrage at Mr. Obama? Do you have any good reason to assume that the tens of thousands of local school districts in the United States are going to move as a body to shorten or end summer vacations?

I don't give a rat's ass what your motives are. In a debate, it is perfectly acceptable to point out that the premise is flawed, or that a logical fallacy is being deployed. And that is what i have done. So long as you attempt to claim that something else is going on here, i will continue to point it out.

The fallacy you have used is unfair entrapment, in that anyone discussing this topic as though there were a real probability of students' summer vacations being shortened or eliminated has accept your flawed premise--that this is imminent generally, and specifically that Mr. Obama is responsible.

Obama expressed an opinion.

If the article is to be believed, he would like to see the school year extended.

The topic which you haven't spent much time addressing is whether this is a good idea or a bad idea.

With your ridiculously excessive anger, and swearing, and comments about the poster, you might want to devote a sentence or two to the topic raised.

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Obama expressed an opinion.

So what? Is he your messiah?

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If the article is to be believed, he would like to see the school year extended.

So what? Is he your messiah?

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The topic which you haven't spent much time addressing is whether this is a good idea or a bad idea.

That would be the topic, if there were any substantive reason to believe that his opinion matters with regard to the length and dates of the school year. There isn't, so that is no reason to discuss this foolishness.

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With your ridiculously excessive anger, and swearing, and comments about the poster, you might want to devote a sentence or two to the topic raised.

Once again, tediously, i am not angry, let alone excessively angry. That's a puerile charge which you make to suggest that i am motivated by emotion rather than reason. You are wrong about that. I haven't devoted any sentences to the topic you allege to have raised because there is no reason to discuss it. Local school boards or state boards of education make the decisions about the school year, not Mr. Obama. That means that there will be the possibility of at least dozens of systems, if not actually thousands--the former if states make the decisions, the latter if local school boards make the decisions.

Please remind me of what "comments about the poster" you are referring to.

And as long as you continue to attempt to imply--dishonestly, i might add--that Mr. Obama has any such authority, i'll stay in your pathetic, lying, false hysteria thread.

You say that you're not angry, but this would strike most people as expressing anger:

Personally, I think school days are already too long, and are really designed to only meet the needs of working parents.