>>My wife was a pre-k teacher and I can tell you they did a lot more than finger paint. Todays 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?