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  • U.S. preschool enrollment hits lowest level since 2005

    09/07/2023 3:51:53 AM PDT · by CFW · 16 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 9/6/23 | Brett Rowland
    Fewer parents sent children to preschool in 2021 in a decline that corresponded with the COVID-19 pandemic. The percentage of 3-to-6-year-olds enrolled in preschool in the United States dropped by 9.3 percentage points from 2019 to 2021, from 51.1% to 41.8%, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report. The 4.1 million preschool enrollees in 2021 was the smallest number since the American Community Survey started collecting these data in 2005. The decline coincides with the pandemic emergency when many schools closed because of public health and safety concerns. Enrollment in both public and private preschools declined, according to the...
  • North Carolina preschool teacher is caught using non-approved LGBTQ flashcards depicting a pregnant man to teach three and four-year-olds about colors

    05/30/2022 1:11:30 AM PDT · by Morgana · 57 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | May 30, 2022 | Stephen M. Lepore
    A North Carolina preschool teacher has been caught using unapproved LGBTQ flash cards - which include images of a pregnant man - to teach 3- and 4-year-old children colors. The teacher, who has not been identified, was found out to have used them on the preschoolers after a constituent of State Representative Erin Pare contacted the Republican about the cards at Ballantine Elementary School in Wake County. Paré contacted the principal of the school to see if she was aware of the use of the cards, which showcase LGBTQ relationships and also go through what each of the colors in...
  • State Agency Conducted ‘Mask Raids,’ Interviewed Preschoolers Alone

    03/08/2022 7:43:04 AM PST · by grundle · 9 replies
    Voice of San Diego ^ | March 7, 2022 | Will Huntsberry
    Several parents at Aspen Leaf Preschool are furious that state child care licensing investigators questioned their children without supervision. Summary During the investigation, regulators separated children and interviewed them without familiar adults present in isolated rooms. Many Aspen Leaf parents said they believed such severe tactics were only meant to be used in child abuse investigations. Stephanie and Richard Rosado recently told their 4-year-old son about the importance of not talking to strangers. Only days later, state regulators came to the child’s preschool, isolated him in a room away from his teachers and friends and asked him questions about masking....
  • A California pre-school is closed because two-year-olds won’t wear masks

    01/15/2022 3:04:16 AM PST · by Kaslin · 15 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | January 15, 2022 | Andrea Widburg
    Exactly five years ago, I was in Hue, Vietnam, the site of the Tet Offensive, an American victory that Walter Cronkite helped turn into a defeat. The Viet Cong eventually took over Hue and, said our guide, with tears in his eyes, “The revenge killings were terrible.” I thought of leftists on a rampage when I read about what the California Department of Social Services did to Foothill Christian Church Preschool in San Diego and to its director, Tiffany McHugh. The Viet Cong would have been proud of what was essentially a bloodless, but nevertheless highly effective, massacre. There are...
  • Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife: ‘Blue’s Clues’ Is Trans-Propagandizing Preschoolers

    06/01/2021 6:06:18 AM PDT · by Loud Mime · 22 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 6-1-2021 | Joy Pullmann
    If your approach to parenting in our post-sexual revolution hellscape isn’t what Antoine Dodson famously called for, you need to wake up, because they raping everybody out here. A clip of a “Blue’s Clues” song celebrating Masturbation and Genital Amputation Month went viral over the weekend heading into June. “Blue’s Clues” also released an episode in May celebrating LGBT identification. “Blue’s Clues” is a long-running preschool TV show that has played on Nickelodeon Jr. since 1996. “Blue’s Clues became the highest-rated show for preschoolers on American commercial television and was critical to Nickelodeon’s growth,” Wikipedia says. The lyrics of its...
  • Most Children’s Music Is Terrible. Listen To This With Your Kids Instead

    05/28/2021 8:33:49 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 20 replies
    The Federalist ^ | May 28, 2021 | Joy Pullman
    Perhaps worse than trite politicization of classic tunes is failing to pass on the wealth of a child's musical heritage. Here are some ways to start offering that audible feast to your child.Just as what you feed your baby (and eat while pregnant) trains her palate toward good food or junk food for life, what your baby sees and hears does the same for her artistic tastes. Kids raised on mental junk food have a harder time developing an understanding of and affinity for more complex, subtle, and nourishing brain foods later in life.Many parents nowadays pay immense attention to...
  • Biden to propose free preschool, as speech details emerge

    04/27/2021 6:40:16 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 30 replies
    Associated Press ^ | April 27, 2021 | Lisa Mascaro and Josh Boak
    President Joe Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out as part of his sweeping American Families Plan being unveiled Wednesday in an address to Congress. The administration said the historic investment would benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000. It calls for providing federal funds to help the states offer preschool, with teachers and other employees earning $15 an hour. “These investments will give American children a head start and pave the way for the best-educated generation in U.S. history,” the administration said. The...
  • Joe Biden Planning $1 Trillion More Spending for Child Care, Universal Pre-School, and Free Community Colleges

    04/20/2021 6:19:22 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 48 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/20/2021 | Charlie Spiering
    President Joe Biden and his administration have already outlined their next big spending bill, The American Families Plan. A basic outline of the second bill was revealed by the Washington Post on Tuesday citing “two people aware of internal discussions.” The bill will likely include $225 billion for child-care, $200 billion for universal preschool, and hundreds of billions for tuition-free community colleges, according to the Post.
  • Bernie Sanders Promises $1.5 Trillion for ‘Free, Universal’ Child Care, Preschool

    02/25/2020 5:55:23 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/24/2020 | Penny Starr
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released his plan to give free, full-day child care for every child beginning at infancy and free preschool education to all children starting at age three at a cost of $1.5 trillion over the next ten years. The federally funded programs would be administered by states and tribes in partnership with local public school systems, and the money would also theoretically pay for workers who run the programs and infrastructure costs.
  • Far-left agitprop for pre-K tots: what NYC schools have come to

    01/28/2020 6:10:35 AM PST · by karpov · 19 replies
    New York Post ^ | January 27, 2020 | Andrea Peyser
    What are they teaching in New York City preschools? At one taxpayer-funded Brooklyn nursery, it isn’t numbers, letters or nap time — but ­racism and victimhood, plus transgender and “queer’’ rights, with a heavy dose of political indoctrination in the mix. “I was kind of horrified,’’ the father of a preschooler told me. “They say they’re trying to reduce racism and discrimination. To me, they’re perpetuating it, fomenting a sense of victimhood that 4-year-olds would never consider on their own.’’ In an e-mail to parents and caregivers on Jan. 16, teacher Rosy Clark lays out lessons based on the Black...
  • Elizabeth Warren’s universal pre-K idea needs a timeout

    02/24/2019 5:56:45 PM PST · by Libloather · 29 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | 2/24/19 | MONA CHAREN
    **SNIP** But even supposing the “ultra-rich” would hold still while the state extracted a fixed yearly portion of their net worth, any plan for universal pre-K deserves skepticism — the opposite of what most news stories convey. ABC News, for example, contends, “The benefits of early child care have long been documented, even showing taxpayers can make money back when investing in high-quality early education.” This is tendentious and wrong. The links ABC provided don’t even support its assertion. The first is to a National Education Association publication (hardly a neutral arbiter), citing one famous study of extremely high-quality day...
  • Cortez Says ‘Walls Are Waste’ And Money Could Fund A Universal Preschool Plan...

    12/21/2018 3:17:02 PM PST · by Libloather · 80 replies
    Newsweak ^ | 12/21/18 | JESSICA KWONG
    Democratic Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday afternoon criticized a proposed short-term spending bill that provided $5.7 billion requested by President Donald Trump for border security, stating: “Walls are waste.” “For the wall’s $5.7 billion, every child in America could have access to Universal Pre-K,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, reiterating her position during her campaign in support of universal preschool and boosting funding to schools. “Yet when we propose the SAME $, we’re told Universal Edu is a ‘fantasy’ & asked ‘how are you going to pay for it,’” she continued in her tweet. “Education is an investment in society that yields returns.”
  • Illegal Immigrants Placed Before American Kids, Forcing Preschool to Close

    11/16/2017 8:44:15 AM PST · by Morgana · 6 replies
    Moonbattery ^ | Nov. 15, 2017 | Moonbattery
    Basic laws exist as to what is right and what makes sense. Indulging in moonbattery entails rejecting these laws so as to posture on behalf of a deranged ideology. This has consequences: A preschool that leases space from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder is shutting down at the end of the month after the church congregation voted to become a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants facing deportation. “It put us out of business,” said Active Boulder Kids owner Kristen Argow Heaton. The presumably far-left Unitarian congregation voted overwhelmingly to convert part of the building into illegal immigrant living quarters. Argow...
  • Swedish Christian Kids Banned From Saying Grace At Mealtimes, Can No Longer Say ‘Amen’

    06/27/2017 3:00:37 PM PDT · by ForYourChildren · 31 replies
    HeatStreet ^ | Lukas Mikelionis
    A Christian preschool in Sweden has banned children from saying grace at mealtimes, talking about the Bible, or saying “Amen”. The decision to forbid children at the school in Umea to engage in religious practices was reached after a school inspection. The municipality’s supervisors in charge of education noted that the Christian activities violate Sweden’s educational policies, Swedish National Broadcaster STV reported. Sweden’s Education Act prohibits schools from having confessional elements during school time and says children should be able to opt-out of religious practices. Inspectors believed the preschool, run by the Salvation Army, didn’t give children a choice as...
  • Muslim parents take kids out of Berlin nursery after discovering teacher is gay

    03/30/2017 3:02:01 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 30 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 29 March 2017 15:40 CEST+02:00
    A protest by Muslim parents against a gay man looking after their children at a Kindergarten has led to a public debate in the liberal capital city. The parents of preschool children in the northern district of Reinickendorf threatened to gather names for a petition against the kindergarten when they found out that one of the nursery teachers was gay, Tagesspiegel reported on Wednesday. At first the protest led the young man to request to be transferred to another kindergarten. But the management of the preschool put their foot down and gave the parents the choice: either accept that a...
  • Boy suspended for taking (shotgun bullet) shell casing to preschool, mom's Facebook post goes viral

    03/25/2017 7:15:43 AM PDT · by Zakeet · 102 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 24, 2017
    An Illinois mom behind a viral Facebook post spoke to Fox 2/News 11 Wednesday. Her son, Hunter, 4, has been suspended from his preschool for bringing a shell casing from a fired bullet to school. He'd been at the preschool for about a year, she said, and now was in tears. Neither she nor Hunter's dad knew it, but he found something he thought was pretty neat and he took it to school Tuesday to show his friends. [Snip] Well....when I was escorted to the office for a sit down. I was handed a tiny .22 empty brass casing. Not...
  • LGBT group pressures preschools to drop 'Mom and Dad' references

    03/06/2017 2:09:50 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 57 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 6/3/17 | Gil Ronen
    A new directive from Israel's Education Ministry calls on preschool teachers to stop referring to "Mom and Dad" in preschool activities. The staff at the pro-LGBT Hoshen Organization, which offers training to preschool staff on the subjects of gender and sexual identity, has suggested Israeli preschool teachers speak about "parents" instead of "Mom and Dad." "It's worth remembering that there are many preschool children who come from non-traditional families. They may have two fathers, two mothers, two sets of parents, or LGBT parents who live separately and each has his or her own relationship," Hoshen explained. "Don't assume that every...
  • Texas Pre-School Muslim Teacher Removed From Classroom After Tweeting ‘Kill Some Jews’

    02/21/2017 9:08:47 PM PST · by ForYourChildren · 41 replies
    Pamelageller.com ^ | Pam Geller
    The Jew-hating Muslims among us. Ms. Salem, a teacher at The Children’s Courtyard in South Arlington, Texas, tweeted vicious, murderous posts from her now-disabled Twitter account. Remarks such as: “kill some Jews,” and “How many Jews died in the Holocaust? Not enough…HAHAHAHA.” She is on leave “pending investigation.” Can you imagine a tweet saying “kill some Muslims”? The teacher would have been out for good immediately. Unemployable forever. That’s what needs to happen to this one. Imagine, this religious Nazi is teaching our children. {.. snip..}
  • Where’s the playground, Susie?

    09/22/2016 7:16:39 AM PDT · by Academiadotorg · 13 replies
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | September 22, 2016 | Malcolm A. Kline
    A playground in Missouri is becoming a political minefield. "Only one religious freedom case is currently before the Supreme Court this upcoming term: Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley," the Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) notes. "Trinity Lutheran is a case about a religious preschool that was rejected from a state program that provides reimbursement grants to purchase rubberized surface material (tire scraps) for children’s playgrounds." "The preschool was ultimately denied the grant for its playground solely because the playground belongs to a religious organization." The ADF is a national network of lawyers who undertake religious liberty cases. The...
  • Find Out What Prince George Packed in His Backpack on the First Day of School

    01/08/2016 11:45:52 AM PST · by RummyChick · 25 replies
    us weekly ^ | 1/8 | us weekly
    But just because he brought the produce doesn't mean he gets to enjoy it. George's offering ends up in a large bowl with all of his classmates', and come snack time, everyone picks out of the bowl. "This encourages sharing," the source tells Us.