[OKIEDOC]

Without trying to pass critical judgment on anyones current situation, this is my opinion of Pre-K.

Many years ago the understanding was that starting children to school to early actually hurt those children. It used to be that you could not start a child in a Texas school until they were seven.

My observations and opinion only is that Pre-K is nothing more than another tool so government entities and some unions can employ more teaching bodies there by expanding their power base.

I have a child in Pre-K and he hates going to school. I have another child in K and she loves every minute of school and doing home work.

My wife who is also a medical doctor believes in Pre-K. I personally have doubts about the good over coming the loss of being home with a parent. That is if a parent can afford to stay home with the child.

Don't get me wrong I am not condemning couples where both parents work. However I have noticed over the last few years that more and more a mom or dad is choosing to stay home with a younger child. I can not say that any of the children I see from both situations are any more adjusted than the other.

[BizzeeMom]

I'm not sure what form pre-K takes in other places, but at our parish school it is only 3 half-days per week. It's fairly expensive, and almost all of the families who use it, have a stay-at-home parent. The awkwardness of the schedule is too much for most families with 2 careers.

I'm not a big proponent of pre-K, having homeschooled our oldest. But our kids *love* this program, I attribute that to the woman who runs it. Also, they think they are "big" because their older sibs are at "real school" right next door.