They Wanted More School.

David Freddoso uses Obama' education positions to highlight the duplicitous and venal nature of the candidate in all things:

"Obama writes:

[T]heir number one issue was this: Because the school district couldn’t
afford to keep teachers for a full school day, Thornton let out every day at
1:30 in the afternoon. With the abbreviatebd schedule, there was no time for
students to take science lab or foreign language classes.How come we’re getting
shortchanged? they asked me. Seems like nobody even expects us to go to college,
they said.They wanted more school."


The elementary-school day and year in Chicago proper are the shortest of
any major U.S. city. It lasts five hours and 45 minutes, and the schools are
open just 174 days per year. This is entirely a result of the intransigence of
the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), a staunch ally of Barack Obama and an early
endorser of his presidential candidacy.

The United States already spends the highest percentage of its world's largest GDP on education, while achieving mediocre results at best. The unholy alliance between democrats and teacher's unions exists only to mutually benefit themselves with power and money, while producing socialist indoctrinated drones just ignorant enough not to cause the elites trouble.