Oh, so he's getting behind School Choice, huh? /s.o.
Rob Reiner: The Fat Facist
Indoctrinate the kiddies earlier and earlier...
I smell a new marketing/sales angle here:
"Buy a hamburger, fries and a coke for a nominal one-time fee of $5.29!"
Why is he giving this break for the rich people?
Why doesn't he do something for the middle class?
Reiner and his group has been collecting this money since 1998 and are only NOW doing something with it???????
And how nice for all the anti-smokers that favored this tax grab..........they can send their children to preschool being paid for by less than 1/4 of the population.
I can see it coming:
If you quit smoking, you are depriving preschoolers of an education.
more indoctrination by the socialists! LMAO
I think folks are finally getting wise to these clowns and more and more people are home schooling their children!
At least he does more than whine, not that I like the guy or his policies at all.
I seriously doubt your going to see kids of the rich sending their kids to this public pre-school. Unless it becomes chic to send them so they can get in to the "right" kindergarten and elementary schools.
Michael Stivic certainly wasn't just a role he played on TV.
What happens to all the current preschools, the ones run for profit, by churches or other non-profits?
How will Meathead keep the prices reasonable when the second thing they'll do (after teaching the kids that fairies are real people, too) will be to allow the neocommunist teachers' union to organize ALL who work for these schools?
So, you gor union staff and fairy courses. What happens when the Mexicans want their kids to attend but don't want to pay? Why, Mexican scholarships, of course! No Christmas, Easter, Passover; only Kwanza, MLK Birthday, Caesar Chavez Day, May Day and Earth Goddess Day.
Meathead doesn't dare advertise this as "school choice" and will have to make this part of the public school system. The kids will still get a sh**ty education but Meathead will feel good about himself and some of his close friends and associates will get wealthy, wealthy enough to be able to send THEIR kids to good private schools.
And in 25+ years, when the percentage of Californians who smoke is far lower than it is today, from where will the money come to fund this program? At that point, cigarette taxes no longer will be enough. Hmmm, let me guess ... (BOHICA)
Emphasis on children at the 1-5 developmental level has rhyme and reason. Children who are effected by abuse and neglect during this phase have actual physical changes in brain development that change their capacity to socialize, learn etc. for the rest of their lives. After the age of five, it is very very difficult and expensive to help such an affected child. http://www.childtrauma.org/
A large portion of public funding ends up being focussed on these children. Investment in assisting parents by providing parenting classes, networking with other parents to prevent isolation, playgroups to help build interactive skills and other such activities are strategies to overcome the incidence of child neglect and abuse.
Human beings are hardwired to be raised in multi-family multi-generational groups of about 20-30. Modern families are isolated and disconnected. We often expect one or two people to be the child's entire set of caregivers with little or no support until the child is of school age. This does not match or human biology. It does not supply the enriched social development that a child may require for healthy devlopment.
Abuse and neglect (including emotional abuse and isolation) can occur in families of all social strata. For some, preschool can be a modern strategy to reconnect child and parent to the social fabric and stimulus that existed through most of human history.