The initiative, the Early Learning Challenge Fund, would channel $8 billion over eight years to states with plans to improve standards, training and oversight of programs serving infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
And of course this will include the mandatory “homosexuality is good” curriculum
They need teaching before they can think. Help is needed.
This is a welfare proposal to assist - no enable - irresponsible teens that get pregnant and need childcare. We need to quit enabling bad behavior (besides the fact that federal welfare programs are unconstitutional)with programs such as WIC, Food Stamps, Medicaid from conception through birth, etc.
$8 billion for babysitting - nice.
Is this part of that U.N. program that wants to teach toddlers to masturbate?
Is this where Ayers inserts his “curricula”?
Which was the original rationale for Head Start, back about 40 years ago. Hundreds of billions down the toilet and "poor" kids still start out a lap behind. Nothing accomplished except looting by connected welfare mothers who got some cushy jobs out of it.
And the government weenies are suggesting that's a bad thing? Boards of education make things so structured that teachers can't teach -- they just provide the programs provided by the boards.
Unfortunately, these programs are needed (though not necessarily the way they’re being run, or going to be run under this latest “new initiative”. But the real problem is people having babies long before they’ve reached a level of intellectual and financial development to be able to take responsibility for raising their own children. A big chunk of the problem is teenage girls, but it doesn’t matter a whit whether they’re married or not. A clueless teenage girl doesn’t magically get a clue — or earning power — when she and a clueless teenage boy have the government issue a piece of paper saying they’re “married”. They’re still two clueless teenagers who have no idea how to earn enough money to support themselves decently, much less a child, nor do they have any idea what a child needs to be learning to lay the foundation for responsible productive adulthood.
Just a couple of days ago, I talked to a young woman who called about an apartment I’m have for rent. Married to a fellow who has some low-paying factory job, and with a 3.5 year old son (thank God the local/state family planning outfit got to them before they pumped out a couple more babies). They’re in a big hurry to find a place to live, because they just found out they can’t stay at their current apartment, where they’ve been for about 9 months. Reason? The apartment was originally her grandfather’s, and when he moved, he told her he talked to the landlord and it would be okay for her and her husband and toddler to live there. Now the landlord says he never said any such thing, and that they can’t stay because they’re subletting (she doesn’t seem to have a clue what that word means). So I ask her what the lease says about subletting. “I never saw no lease so I don’t know”. So I ask if there even IS a lease (this is in a small town, and some landlords just rent month to month without any written lease). “Yeah, my grandad signed the lease but I never saw it, I just trusted him ‘cause he said he talked to the landlord.” So I ask if she even knows when it expires, since most leases are only for a year? “No, ‘cause I never seen it.” Then she tells me about the 8 month old Rottweiler they have, how she’s really gentle, would never bite anyone, is great with her son even when he pulls her tail and stuff. So while I’m doing the math in my head and realizing they got a Rottweiler puppy just a few weeks after moving into an apartment that they knew had a lease, but which they’d never seen the terms of, and the owner/agent of which they’d never met (I’m really starting to feel for this landlord now), I ask if the dog is spayed. “No, they can’t do that until she’s at least a year old.” Uh, huh, riiiiight. Dogs usually come into heat for the first time at 7 months, and often as young as 5 months, and vets recommend spaying before their first heat. I see puppies on the horizon. I do NOT see these people moving into the beautiful just-renovated apartment I’ve got open.
The scary thing is, these two have no idea what they’re doing wrong. They followed all the rules they know about. They got married, he got a job, they had a baby, they got a dog. But they’re spinning their wheels and sinking into the mud. The only good news in all this is that their little boy just started in the local Head Start program. At least there’s a chance he’ll get some exposure to some adults who have a clue, and that maybe a little of it will rub off on him. If they didn’t have a kid yet, maybe they’d be able to get a bit more education, and a bit more life experience, and be better prepared for adult responsibilities. But they do have a kid, and none of those good things are going to happen, because they’re barely keeping their heads above water as it is.
If these two had had their first child 10 years later, they’d most likely have a comfortable, self-sufficient family life ahead of them, and not be leeches clinging to the taxpayers and voting Democrat because they’re in favor of all the government programs they can get their hands on because they can’t fathom any other way to get by. As it is, I guarantee the child is on some sort of public health care program, the parents may be too since I’m sure their income is quite low, the Head Start program is taxpayer funded, and the public schools that the kid will attend later are taxpayer funded, and these parents will NEVER come anywhere close to paying enough in taxes to cover the cost of educating even one child (and they’ll almost certainly end up having more, and the kid will start reproducing in his late teens or very early twenties, before paying a dime in school/property taxes).
We can bitch and moan all day about these ever-expanding government programs, but if we don’t get serious about dealing with the underlying reproductive engine that’s driving them, we’re just going to be bitching and moaning forever, because the programs will never shrink and will never go away. These people are breeding socialist voters and raising them at our expense.
Let us not forget that the president’s good friend who he claims not to know that well is a professor of early childhood education.
Is this a Bill Ayers initiative for incremental Soviet style indoctrination of little ones ala Cuba, North Korea etc?