Posted on 02/26/2013 5:32:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Totally wasteful “babysitter program”....and momma ain’t even working...
and books in the house.
And so Michelle went to Aspen and he went to Florida to suck up to Tiger...
We always went on vacation with my mom and dad.
You know what I would like do to this ugly face?
Any child born to an unmarried mother is already behind ... but you knew that, Zero. You were lucky: your generation of hippies' "whoops" kids had grandparents who were functional. The current children are often four generations from anyone who held a job or was functionally literate.
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.
Now when the welfare queens with their enormous asses are sitting home, smoking crack and watching their soap operas and talking on their free obama phones, we can pay to babysit their kids too....life is good if you are a welfare queen.
>>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.
The President doesn’t give a rat’s ass about education. No money he provides will go for education..... it will all go to educators.
America has no education problem. America has an educator problem.
reparations - pay up
it’s “our turn” to hold the whip now
I have to disagree. Preschool is harmful to children. It makes them peer dependent at a much earlier age. The best place for young children is at home with mom. If that makes me an old-fashioned old fogey, so be it.
I recommend the books by Raymond Moore - Better Late Than Early and School Can Wait.
I am also in favor of homeschooling, although I realize that is not possible for everyone. One thing all parents should do is keep their kids out of government run institutions.
I ain’t gonna mind-read...
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