My wife was a pre-k teacher and I can tell you they did a lot more than finger paint. Today’s Kindergarteners are learning what used to be taught to 1st graders.
This conservative is FOR pre-k.
Do you guys just not like it because Obama’s doing it?
Obama basically wants a jobs program for sociology majors.
If you like pre-k so much, great. Don’t make me pay to send your kid to it.
Sounds great!
Now, go set up a few private pre-K’s,
and a private, voluntary charity/scholarship program for those that can’t afford it,
and stop picking my pocket for a program that does MUCH LESS than homeschooling would do for the child.
As for “kindergardener doing 1st grade work”, I’m not impressed in the least. Most highschoolers, regardless of “head start”, couldn’t pass an 1800’s era 6th grade certificate exam.
>>My wife was a pre-k teacher and I can tell you they did a lot more than finger paint. Today’s Kindergarteners are learning what used to be taught to 1st graders.
So what? so they moved everything up a year? Does that translate into higher graduation rates? better educated students? more success in college? or life? I doubt it - all it does is frontload some learning, the net is likely still the same at best.
So why not start pre-pre-k? That way we can teach in pre-pre-k what used to be taught in pre-k? and in a few years we can have mandatory pre-pre-pre-k? More (govt) jobs for everybody, yippee!
Why not just give birth in the school and leave your kid there?
“...This conservative is FOR pre-k...”
A few hours of pre-k a few days a week (for ages 3 and 4) is certainly benenficial. I am nervous that this program is a euphemism for government daycare starting very young - more encouragement for the breakdown of the family.
May THIS Conservative ask why?
Yuh huh- you're a conservative, yet you automatically think of only one possible reason why people might not want universal pre-k, when there are as many reasons as there are parents. Way to demogauge and dismiss an entire group, you have learned well from your master.
Children of pre-K age belong with their mothers, at home. It is a fundamentaly important period for strengthening parent-child bonds, which lay the foundation for how well your child will deal with life.
Obama is talking MANDATORY ("universal") pre-k, which means all children must attend. That is not a power enumerated to the federal government. Further, mandatory means taxes will be raised to fund it, and that makes it even harder for those who wish to keep their own children at home, since they are forced to fund others.
The longer kids stay at home with a parent, the better they do. Kindergarten used to be voluntary, did you know that? And the generation that started school in first grade scored significantly higher on SAT tests than this generation.