This week I read an article about Obama titled More School? Obama Could Trim Summer break by MSNBC News. It talk’s about how Obama wants to make summer break shorter or even no summer break at all. The article also says how he wants to make us go to school three hours more then we usually do. If he has it his way then we might as well say goodbye to all of our friends because we will never have any time to hang out with them because school is so long. I think this is truly unfair because kids need at least a little bit of freedom from their teachers droning on about dumb boring stuff that we really don’t even need to know if we want to be successful in life. Obama says the other countries are beating us out. On average kids in America have 180 days of school a year. Kids in Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong have on average 190-201 days of school. BIG DEAL! It’s not like ten or fifteen more days of school each year is going to make the difference on you being a rocket scientist or a person who works at McDonalds. In school, it depends on how much you pay attention and listen. Also if we had no summer break, places like Disney World and other major amusement parks would go out of business because everyone would be in school during the summer. This is also unfair to teachers because they don’t get the regular freedom they want also. They already don’t get very much vacation time, and when they do go on a vacation or something, they have to pay for a substitute to come in. I’m sure we would all be esteemed if Obama cut summer break and made the school days longer.