President Obama thinks students all around the Earth are getting better grades than Americans. So, he has come up with the idea the school day ahould be longer, shorter summer vacation, staying open later and accepting students into the school on the weekends so they stay out of trouble.

According to Education Secretary Arne Duncan the way we go to school today is based on the farming culture. A culture where kids had to help in the fields.  Today not enough students work on farms to justify this school calender.

I think this will give students more time to grasp complicated subjects. In my opinion we need shorter summer vacations, because kids forget their skills over summer and are expected to enter a class that built on skills they forgot over the summer. It also helps kids from hanging around the streets and falling into the wrong crowd and end up in trouble.

All in all, this is a good idea that I hhope he makes it a law.