Pre-K Won't Help Kids

Townhall.com ^ | February 26, 2013 | Phyllis Schlafly

[libdestroyer]

“Do you guys just not like it because Obama’s doing it?”

Notice how that was put into question form. I’m not accusing anyone, just questioning your motives. Although it’s clear to me you’re old-fashioned. Nothing wrong with that if you want to sit on your front porch whittling and talking about how rotten everything’s become.

You offer no solutions.

[riri]

Kids need to be home with a sane mom during those years. I know that’s asking a lot with the raw materials we have to work with.

[Elsie]

I would love it if we fixed our K-12 system so that we wouldn’t have a need for pre-k. That’s just not a reality.

The 'problem' lies MUCH deeper than the schools.

You will NEVER find the word SIN anywhere in M EDIA these days.

EVIL - maybe - but SIN??

Gimme a break.

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My wife’s students were better off at the end of the year than they would have been if they hadn’t taken the pre-k program.

And, your wife would have a LOT less of them IN the 'program'; if we did not SUBSIDIZE the creation of them!

[Elsie]

The Georgia Pre-k program is lottery-funded, just like the Hope Scholarship.

It would have a lot more funds if the taxes on prostitution and marijuana sales were used as well.

[Elsie]

The Georgia Pre-k program is lottery-funded, just like the Hope Scholarship.

At least the kid's parents ARE paying for some of it after all!

[petitfour]

How do these students find their way to your wife’s classroom?

I do not think teaching your child basic things is a conservative ideal. It’s a part of living in a civilized society.

These things should be left to churches and individuals to handle. I went to kindergarten at a church. I still remember the teachers despite only attending that school for kindergarten. We said prayers. We thanked God for our food. Not government. Those were the days . . .

[Pining_4_TX]

Although not many Freepers would agree, there are thousands of government workers who attempt to do a good job. It is the system that doesn’t work. Government is force. It is designed to maintain order and to defend from enemies. That is government’s only legitimate function, and it doesn’t even do that very well. No matter how well intentioned parents and teachers may be, the system will continue to deteriorate. Good teachers will continue to be frustrated in their attempts to change the system, and Christian parents should not be sending their children to places where their faith is mocked and even banned.

If government had been in charge of communication, we would be talking to each other by means of tin cans attached with strings.

As long as we have the moribund, one-size-fits-all government school system there will be no progress, no innovation, no real change, and a constant fight over who controls things. Why are we still doing things the way they were done 100 years ago? Why are children marched lockstep through the system regardless of their individual abilities? How many generations of poor kids are we going to sacrfice to terrible inner city schools?

Schools are quite similar to prisons, complete with all the negative social systems that are part of prison life. The worst thing that ever happened to this country was when government took over education.

And there is peer pressure even in pre-school. I just read an article about it the other day. Kids are not meant to be raised in herds. They need individual attention and some freedom to play and be creative. I realize that our government has so ruined the economy that it is difficult for many families to survive on one income, but that does not alter what is best for kids.

I can only imagine the different forms that education might have taken if left to the market and to creative people whose first interest was in educating children and not in pleasing the bureaucrats and doing things a certain way just because that is always how they were done. *sigh*

[Lancey Howard]

Pre-K Won't Help Kids

LMBO!!
"Helping kids" has nothing to do with it - - it's all about expanding government unions (unionized teachers and daycare providers) and starting homosexual indoctrination earlier.

[Elsie]

If government had been in charge of communication, we would be talking to each other by means of tin cans attached with strings.

Thank GOD for Al Gore and his wonderful invention: the Internet!

[Elsie]

The worst thing that ever happened to this country was when government took over education.

When school boards accepted the offer they couldn't refuse.

[Elsie]

I can only imagine the different forms that education might have taken if left to the market and to creative people whose first interest was in educating children and not in pleasing the bureaucrats and doing things a certain way just because that is always how they were done.

Amish?

[libdestroyer]

Although not many Freepers would agree, there are thousands of government workers who attempt to do a good job. It is the system that doesn’t work. Government is force. It is designed to maintain order and to defend from enemies. That is government’s only legitimate function, and it doesn’t even do that very well. No matter how well intentioned parents and teachers may be, the system will continue to deteriorate. Good teachers will continue to be frustrated in their attempts to change the system, and Christian parents should not be sending their children to places where their faith is mocked and even banned. If government had been in charge of communication, we would be talking to each other by means of tin cans attached with strings. As long as we have the moribund, one-size-fits-all government school system there will be no progress, no innovation, no real change, and a constant fight over who controls things. Why are we still doing things the way they were done 100 years ago? Why are children marched lockstep through the system regardless of their individual abilities? How many generations of poor kids are we going to sacrfice to terrible inner city schools? Schools are quite similar to prisons, complete with all the negative social systems that are part of prison life. The worst thing that ever happened to this country was when government took over education. And there is peer pressure even in pre-school. I just read an article about it the other day. Kids are not meant to be raised in herds. They need individual attention and some freedom to play and be creative. I realize that our government has so ruined the economy that it is difficult for many families to survive on one income, but that does not alter what is best for kids. I can only imagine the different forms that education might have taken if left to the market and to creative people whose first interest was in educating children and not in pleasing the bureaucrats and doing things a certain way just because that is always how they were done. *sigh*

good post! I'm sure my wife would agree with you too. Kids are getting an education IN SPITE of the government because of good teachers who care enough about their students to put up with the mindless, idiotic bureaucracy!