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?
Yeah, especially when it’s government-run, right?
F*** off, Duncan.
Mmm...Mmm...Mmm...
Sounds like Agenda 21.
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.
Commie Obama is becoming THE most transparent Communist Administration through his commie Federal servants.
How can anybody be this stupid? Oh yeah, he graduated from Harvard with a Sociology degree.
Years ago, the US Army tried to save a lot of money, by instead of buying German Shepard puppies that had been weaned by their mother and trained by professionals, to take newly born puppies and have them raised by MPs.
Of the 60 or so dogs, all were non-functional and put down, because the Army did not know that affectionate, physical stimulation is essential to neurological development in mammals.
The same applies to humans, but far more so, as humans develop much slower, *and* it is essential that they bond with both their mother and father. For only then do children develop on a “success” track of life. Children raised by a single parent are much more likely to be in a “survival” track, and thus have 60% greater odds of becoming criminal offenders.
This calls into question the very concept of regular pre-school, as opposed to intermittent baby sitting. By the age of four, children need to experience a little, intermittent separation from their parents and other family; but even by age five, when most enter kindergarten, many are still unready for such a broad change as being separated on a daily basis for several hours.
Do they experience negative psychological problems because of this? Unknown.
However, anecdotal experience indicates that children given nurturing from their parents and family longer before independence, are more likely to provide this same benefit to their family and offspring.
Furthermore, such families tend to cross-gender socialize their children more, so that boys and girls relate better to each other’s wants and needs. This is a big help to having stable families when they eventually establish relationships and have children.
Something that non-Hispanic white people are missing out on, resulting in children far less capable of having healthy marital relations.
Pre-school, if done correctly, is not a bad thing. However, Arne Duncan isn't caring about preparing young children for formal education. His interest in solely on indoctrination.