“Created in 1965, Head Start has been proven a failure.
The bad news came in a study which used the best possible method to review the program: It found that, by the end of the first grade, children who attended Head Start are essentially indistinguishable from a control group of students who didn’t.”
— Cato Institute.
A feel-good program. It was part of the war on poverty and poverty won.
It did NOT start out as a baby sitting business...My daughter was my only child then so this was a way to play with other kids. It was only for a couple hours. Only did it for a few months.