Posted on 06/19/2008 5:16:48 AM PDT by Amelia
....a new study released today by the independent, nonprofit research organization RAND Corp...Among its key findings, the study showed that the children who could especially benefit from preschool are the least likely to be in it, such as, Latinos, blacks, those whose parents have low education and those from economically disadvantaged families.
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Josue's mother, Esperanza Juarez, believes preschool has laid solid academic and social foundations for her son's future. "The teachers taught him manners, to wait his turn and to say 'thank you,'" she said. "This is a very good program. It will help him be more successful in his life."
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What the Sam Hill has Miss Clueless been doing for the last five years? Apparently, ignoring her kid and just 'hoping' (esperance) he'll somehow learn the stuff she isn't teaching him.
I can’t understand people who just feed and cloth the kids and wait for the schools to teach abc’s and how to behave.
I was told by my kids’ school system that preschool was more to teach the children how to act in a classroom setting. Um, ok?
Then 18 years later when the kid is a thug and entering jail, the problem is obviously the school's because they didn't do enough. Never-mind that schools are only in session 180 days of the year, never-mind that they are at the school 7 hours out of 24, never-mind that they parents let the kid run buck-wild from the very get go. Nope, it's the school's fault! 100%
Sarcasm off
That way they can receive quality care from the government propaganda and indoctrination centers that masquerade as “schools.”
Carolyn
It's a sad day when the mom is the school and the dad is the government and the 'birth parents' are watching Jerry Springer and signing welfare checks as their 'job'
I fear that the days of this republic are drawing to a close.
Thank you for your post. - bill
If you'll read the comments at the link above, you'll see that parents are complaining about the idea because that will mess up their daycare arrangements. For some parents, school is all about keeping the kids "off the streets".
(Other people said it's just an idea to give teachers longer vacations, disregarding the fact that we get paid for 190 days per year, no matter when those days are scheduled...)
In other words, it is better to grow up in a functional home. You know some kids come to school not knowing the names of colors. They have been traipsing around after adults whose lives consist of going from place to place doing Heaven knows what at all hours and leaving their stuff all over the city, they get to school irregularly......it is a crime how insignificant these kids are to some of these “parents” except for obtang the check that goes along with the kid.
The sad thing is that many of these kids really are almost "feral" children, and have little or no exposure to proper behavior, discipline, or anything academic until they begin school. I don't think schools ought to be responsible for everything but it seems that if schools don't do it, no one will.
“It’s a sad day when the mom is the school and the dad is the government and the ‘birth parents’ are watching Jerry Springer and signing welfare checks as their ‘job’”
Well, where do you expect the Democratic Party to get their next generation? Not with kids who are raised with love, attention, logic and high expectations, surely.
In 1975 my son went to Kindergarten KNOWING his ABC’s (and I was a working Mom).....he came out NOT knowing much more.....I was told.....”Kindergarten is for socialization”.....little did I know at the time what THAT meant.
Josue’s mother, Esperanza Juarez, believes preschool has laid solid academic and social foundations for her son’s future. “The teachers taught him manners, to wait his turn and to say ‘thank you,’” she said. “
And what the hell has she been doing this whole time????
When my daughter went to kindergarten, they did one color, a few letters, one number a week. Even Sesame Street does one number and one letter in an hour. All review for some children but some didn’t know.
Their parents had underestimated them and neglected teaching them, for all the children in the class came out reading, writing, and doing simple arithmetic.
You've gotta wonder, huh?
My daughter’s Pre-K had a “readiness review for Kindergarten”. The whole concept of Kindergarten was to get them ready for Grades 1-12. Because children had trouble going from stay at home to sit down first grade. Readiness review checklist included:
counting to 10 (daughter was to 100)
recognizing ABCs (ours could write them, too)
knew name, address, phone number (working on last 2)
could take turns (duh)
was toilet trained
could go to the bathroom by themselves
could dress themselves
could speak clearly and be understood
shapes
colors
I live in Georgia. I don’t want the state messing with my city schools. I want them to keep their noses out. When my children start school is NOT the state’s business. I LIKE the August start. My kids have a whole semester before Christmas and a whole one after Christmas. It makes sense not to interrupt the semester with a 2 week vacation.
Our schools are award-winning, excellent schools. The state will ruin them.
If they want to raise test scores, they should do more to get the illegals moving OUT of our state.
Actually, the daycare complaints at the link were in response to a year ‘round school suggestion.
Yes, we need more cash for the poor migrants who break into the US illegalls and have children. This is to abuse your so-called 14th Amendment so they qualify for programs their parent never contributed to...yes, yes, and please don’t forget to send some of your tax-free American dollars back home - Felipe Calderon
I like having the first semester before Christmas and the 2nd semester after Christmas, too. It wouldn’t break my heart to give up the week in October and the week in Thanksgiving so we could start a little later, though.
They have been messing with our schedule for a couple years.
We now have a week off at Thanksgiving, a week in Feb. and a week in early April. I prefer a half week at Thanksgiving and only one week in the Spring. We don’t get a week in October.
We get the two weeks in fall, and another week (not to mention days scattered here & there) in the spring, but not a lot of time at Christmas anymore.
**Study: Some Preschoolers Need Higher Quality Care**
Absolutely. If I had been the inspector of child care centers (and yes, one did come around when I owned a child care center.) I would have closed down over half the pre-schools and child care centers.
No cuurriculum..........just play space.
Like mom can't?
Excuse me "MOM"... that's your job. I can't believe anyone would be celebrating the fact someone else had to step up and do what they should have been doing since the day their own child was born. Unfathomable.
Apparently, there's a reason not to homeschool in that household... ;-)
Pre-pre-kindergarten is all the rage right now, get them in the system at three.
That’s probably because of “parents” like the one quoted in this article, who apparently do very little actual parenting.
Parents are definately dropping the ball on raising children. Many now expect the school to do it for them, not only with manners- but with basics such as potty training. Pre-school and Kindergarten classrooms these days are well stocked with diapers, changes of clothes and most have a washer/dryer so they can do the laundry for the children that are not even potty trained.
Parents were expected to put a basic foundation on a child before they went to school. That foundation included manners, respect for adults/authority, and basics like potty training. Most parents also read to their children, taught them nursery rhymes and the alphabet, colors, numbers and other basic things as a foundation for the vital task of learning. Schools were expected to take the child with that basic foundation and educate them.
We are blaming the schools for not educating the children, but the schools are receiving many children that do not have a foundation to be ready to be educated. My grandson didn’t go to pre-school; yet he did have a solid foundation for learning before going to Kindergarten- his teacher was amazed as if it is rare for her to get a student that is actually prepared for school. My grandson excelled in Kindergarten without pre-school which is supposed to be very difficult these days.
We not only complain that schools are not educating our children, we also complain because the school wants to exert too much authority on their life- but if we aren’t teaching our children the fundamentals- then we are expecting the school to take on the task of raising the children as opposed to just educating them.
Actually, the reason for preschool is these parents (very low income, undereducated themselves, inner cities, etc.) who do not give their children the foundation for school. The children start out behind and never catch up. Preschool is supposed to get them on a more-or-less equal footing with children who've received what most of us would consider normal parenting, but it's more likely to be used by children who really don't "need" it, putting them even further ahead of those who do need it.
We not only complain that schools are not educating our children, we also complain because the school wants to exert too much authority on their life- but if we aren’t teaching our children the fundamentals- then we are expecting the school to take on the task of raising the children as opposed to just educating them.
And many people do expect just that, but it doesn't stop their complaints when they don't like the way the school does it. :-)
One would think that parental education campaigns, similar to those telling pregnant women not to consume alcohol or caffeine, and to have their babies sleep on their backs (or stomachs, whichever the current "wisdom" might be), could be effective, but I don't really know either.
It’s not for everyone. Certainly a mother who has so little control over her 3 year old that she cannot teach him basic manners is not in a position to teach him anything else of value.
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