Obama calls for longer school year

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100927/us_yblog_upshot/obama-calls-for-longer-school-year

An article that I read annoyed me intensely.  The article was called "Obama calls for longer schools."  If done correctly and for the right reasons, a year-long school year would be a good thing.  BUT here is a quote from Obama "...contending that the school-year gap puts them at a competitive disadvantage in the global economy."  This is so infuriating for me.  Because once we start looking as education as a competition, we lose the very heart of what education is supposed to be about.

Another irksome thing about this article is that it's saying that education is only about economy.  It's only about getting a good job.  In regards to Education Nation, we are nowhere close, because education is not about getting a good job, but it should be about becoming a good human being who thinks critically about things.