Posted on 06/14/2013 4:11:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday that “cultural hesitation” makes it more difficult for some Hispanic parents to want to enroll their children in public pre-school programs because of their preference for family and friends.
Duncan’s remarks came when asked about pre-school and the Hispanic community at an event to mark the anniversary of Educare of Washington, D.C., a preschool for children from six weeks to five years old. …
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History shows Headstart does not work and may even hurt children.
Nothing is better for early learning then a loving home and loving parents & grand parents.
I can’t say this often enough.
The “public school” is the Bus Ministry of the State Church of Multi-Culti Political Correctness.
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
It is hypocritical to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. Children do not trust hypocrites, so this hypocrisy will undermine your own authority and influence over your children.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
To understand the content and compass of modern education, see ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54400125/Change-Agents-in-the-Schools-Barbara-Morris-1979
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government entitlement program.
When I was there in 2002, they didn’t have pre-school in Russia. In fact, they didn’t start school until age 7. They spent their pre-school childhood with mother or grandparents, and they were expected to arrive their first day of school already literate and numerate at a level considered commensurate for age 7 in Russia.
The State can never do a better job of raising children then family can. Of course a government overlord wants to get you kids away from family members and begin the indoctrination as soon as possible............
… a preschool for children from six weeks to five years old. …
It’s a preschool or daycare? What’s a six week old infant going to learn?
How to start sucking on the government teat at an early age ;)
Yeah, especially when it’s government-run, right?
F*** off, Duncan.
All your point are on target, but again for the American people it’s a matter of $$$. They think they are financially required to send their children to indoctrination. Many don’t even know what indoctrination is.
Mmm...Mmm...Mmm...
For years though the media reported on the “success” of Head Start like it was a tribute to Lady Bird Johnson, who pushed this through in 1965. And most Americans still truly believe in the success of Head Start.
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! teachers! leave the kids alone!
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
That has to be it.
I do not know how they could determine that it hurts children. I would think that the interesting and testable hypothesis would be that any gains from these headstart progrms dwindle over a few years, so in the long run there's no benefit.
In my wonderful journey through the world of substitute teaching (it's really a nice supplementary income for a retiree, and every day is unique) I've spent some time in these federally funded preschools for 4-5 year olds. They're supplied with unbelievable resources...books, toys, building blocks, puzzles, role-playing play stations, group meeting corners, reading-writing early learning materials, even playground equipment right outside the door. The kids do speak English there (that's a plus). The children get free breakfast, free lunch, and the full complement of specialists for music, art, phys ed, being read stories, etc.
If they're saying "look at the material things we provide" it's true, they provide so much. Question is, would simple things like just a few toys and activities from loving parents and grandparents have greater long-range impact? Maybe Sebelius and her crone crew don't understand that.
Children who’ve attended headstart are behind other children developmentally.
There are many factors since headstart has been provided to children who tended to be from very poor and/or single parent homes.
Sounds like Agenda 21.
Amen. Truest words spoken today.
Arne-My grandmother was a soft spoken British Gal all of 5’4” that taught School back in the days of one room School, who if she heard you say that would would have kicked your ass over your shoulders.
Nothing is better than Grandma.
Grandma rules.
and especially playing and being a kid.
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