[wizardoz]

I don't suppose that handing them over to Soviet-inspired public schools at the age of 5 (or even younger) has ANYTHING to do with this obsessive attachment to their age-group. No, of course not.

[LaraCroft]

There is a cry in CA for children to go to pre-pre school because 'studies' show that it makes them better students and happier adults.

I though kindergarden was a pre school to get you ready for school. Now they have pre-school to get you ready for kindergarden and now they want pre-pre-school to get you ready for pre-school.

And the stupid parents don't see a correlation with the schools getting money for every child there every day and just blindly assume that they schools are doing what is best for the kids, not just whoring them out to get a few more thousand bucks a week.

It's all the parents fault though. In CA the schools are so liberal and ludicrious that the for years kids have been graduating without learning how to read and everyone just goes tiptoing around the huge teachers union in fear, instead of firing them and hiring people that are actually useful.

Everywhere I look in life now I see areas which the government has screwed things up unbelievably, and we, leming-like still continue to fund them, elect them and let them vote us more bread and circuses.

Private schools are fabulous, and instead of patterning themselves after working models, the schools here are trying to drive them out of business.