HAHAHA! Is it Fantasy Day?! Let's all make up silly stories!
The little Californians are Learning French?! How wonderful! But when will the children have time to learn English?
Pish-tosh! Did I say "pish-tosh"? Buncombe. Balderdash. Bilge. Hogwash. Unmitigated piffle. Utter nonsense. Wake me up when you get back from Planet Zongo.
Just one more PLEASE, and then I'll stop.
"""They won't be left behind in kindergarten or first grade when things get more complicated," Chaponot said.""
Because Kindergarten is So HARD right? I just can't get those seasons in sequence, is it Spring Winter Fall Summer or Winter Spring Summer Fall? When there is a fire what do I do, wait wait I remember STOP DROP AND ROLL!
The Rand study reported that enrollment rates nationwide are lowest for Hispanic children and for children from poor families.
Only 38 percent of 3- to 5-year-olds whose mothers who have less than a high school education enroll in early childhood programs, compared to 70 percent for those whose mothers have at least a college degree.
Risk factors that lead to failure in school are acute in California, where about 18 percent of children under age 5 live with a single parent; 13 percent are Hispanic and living in poverty and nearly half have a foreign-born parent.
The Rand study, co-authored by Lynn Karoly and James Bigelow, figured that 25 percent of California's children of preschool are at high risk of failure.
Translation: High-quality, universal preschool for all 4-year-olds in California would generate $2.62 in new spending at the local malls by union teachers for every public dollar spent, according to a new economic analysis released Tuesday by the California Pre-School Teachers Association. ;)
Okay class, all together. We must raise teachers' salaries; we must invest more in schools; we must see that every school child is given a good meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; we must pump more money into the schools; we must pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay; then all the problems will be fixed. Class dismissed.
Another homeschooling Ping.
some los angeles high schools have police helicopters hovering overhead.
they oughta solve existing problemas before the create new ones.
I've seen the ads for a long time now. The fact is this: Kids who go to pre-school are better educated because their parents care about their education and development. They can also tend to make more money. Those who don't send their kids to preschool are either on welfare, can't afford to send them (single parents), and there is a small percentage who educate their kids at home. The latter do well, the two former, no.
P.S. As far as preschool kids being less likely to do drugs and go to jail: Welfare parents often do use drugs and the fathers often are in, or have been in jail. Those kids are in a bad home environment, and kids who go to preschool have parents who make enough money to shelter their kids from this environment.
I bet if we started them in school at 6 months we could save even more money.
Hey there are lots of preschools that aren't state run. Bottom line, having parents that care about their children and what they learn is really the answer. Perhaps the children in preschools have parents that care a lot about them. My boy is in preschool and it really helps, it isn't state run.
Won't the $2.62 in savings simply be sent home to Mexico?
if even one education "expert" read the work of Piaget or Marvin Minsky at MIT, they would know that kids this age need to run and play not try to learn anything. their minds are not ready for the concept of conservation, how much water is in the short 8oz glass vs. the tall 8oz glass, let alone subjects of Pre-School.