Another Bush is on fire huh? Is this one going to speak to Moses as well? Seriously? Can't even proofread the freaking title of your article????????????

No my complaint is we should fix the 180 days kids are currently are in school instead of adding another 14 meaningless and possibly detrimental days. I'm calling out the current time spent in class being not very efficient and that we should fix that first, which is a far cry from your theory that I don't want to do anything to fix education. I love the block scheduling some of the schools moved to in my area. I think its far more productive for the teachers and students. But I think the cirriculum itself and the standards needs an overall. If kids are forgetting how to do something in the span of 2 months, then they aren't learning, they are memorizing for a test.

If students go so far as to regress in simply 2 months after 10 months of education, then its not the students, but the way they are taught. Before we cut the summer vacation maybe we should focus on enhancing education that's received in a 10 month window and make that better instead of adding another 2 weeks of subpar education. Sure summer can be boring, but that's up to the individual child. If you sit in front of a TV all day you are going to be bored, but if you actually got up and did something productive with the time you had off, you'd be much better off. Also, that second "mis-perception" is by far the norm in America. More classes then not were void of enjoyment and learning in my education, and the way the education system is set up today, students are made to work toward a magical number so the school can receive funding, instead of creating joy in learning. We need to change the time we do have in the classroom, before we start adding more time to an already defunct institution.

Doesn't someone have to decide how to spend the money? If Bill Gates just gave a billion dollars to random charities, someone in those charities would spend the money to make the world how they should be. All the more power to him if he wants to spend his money to shape the world how he see's fit. If he doesn't, someone else will.