Dear President Obama

I read an article today that said Obama wants to lengthen school days and times. It can be found here. That's a nice idea and all but they also have to consider the costs in raising teacher's pay to accommodate the extra hours. As a future teacher, I know that extra time in school means teachers staying later, extra work at home on lesson plans, more preparation and so forth. A teachers day isn't just during school hours and summers aren't spent playing around. Any good teacher will tell you that a majority of their summertime is spent working on lesson plans, prepping classrooms and attending in-services and conferences. If you average out a teachers salary with hours actually worked plus the extra money most spend on supplies and such, it's actually not very good. I try to avoid getting political on here, but I found it a little amusing.

I will discuss the fiasco that was my birthday weekend tomorrow.