Is More School Better?

President Obama wants students in America to compete better with kids across the world. According to him our test scores are a lot lower than kids in other states he expressed this in the article "Obama would curtail summer vacation" by the Associated Press. How does he want to address this issue? He wants to cut down summer and make school days longer.

First of all, many kids would probably hate going to school longer and I don't believe it would help that much. Just the other day I was listening to the Dom and Jane show and they were talking about how smart kids in Japan are. They said that the reason kids in Japan are way out beating America in test scores is because they only let their best students advance in their education. The other kids have to go to a trade school. If president Obama does decide to do this he will probably be doing more bad then good.

In the article it said that kids need summer. Without it they wouldn't actually retain as much as with it. But as summer wouldn't be too bad to loose, extra time in school like 3 hours would be very bad. All students don't use that time to hang out with their friend some students are doing homework all night. If we had less time then kids would be exhausted from working on homework and not do as well. Some kids even said that if they made school longer they would just walk out.
One question i had while reading was:
What difference would it make to send kids to school longer?
My perspective on this is that making school longer would hurt kids grades more then helping them. Also it would be a lot more expensive and many poor kids would have to drop out of school.