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LOL.. infrared mousies works for me..
Can the day be far off when parents will have their children removed from them at birth to be molded into superior citizens of the state?
Deja Vu..
NYS already has the highest education taxes in the nation, but that is not enough. Each year, the school districts submit new school budgets averaging 7% higher than the previous one, despite hefty funding from federal and state agencies. Like a black hole, NYS Education has a insatiable appetite for more money.
Speak of the House, Sheldon Silver, has been the loudest and staunchest advocate for pre-K funding. He will read this report and proclaim .... "We need more money to correct this disparity."
As a former pre-k teacher, that number is far less than it should be. Kids growing up today are *brats* because their parents spoil them.
"The Universal Pre-k advocates are out and about speaking about the Yale Center study because rather than being interested in what is best for children, they are concerned that the report will cause parents to start staying home and raising their own. God forbid. Notice that the first thing they do is ask for more money, more support services, and more training and degree programs. How we parents manage to raise 3 and 4-year olds without the "help" and intervention of preschool "experts," I will never know."
I hate to say it, but preschool is a better place for the kids who get tossed. Usually it is because of poor parenting.
Why?
"He was. . . was. . . acting like a kid!"
Heaven forbid their report 'accidently' show that kids do actually do better and stay in school longer and benefit from more time at home with a loving mother or father caring for them. What a nightmare for those initiating the study to find the opposite of what they expected. You know what that means, 'Hurry, raise taxes and send more money!', so they can reach more kids, earlier than ever. And let the indoctrination begin.
Maybe they can talk more of the stay at home moms into rushing back to work (yes, some of us had no choice but to work) by reminding them to 'fulfill' themselves through work. (didn't the Nazis have some expression about joy through work?) Call Oprah, get those children in daycare! (end sarcasm)
How we parents manage to raise 3 and 4-year olds without the "help" and intervention of preschool "experts," I will never know.
Shhhh. The love and attachment are the main things we give that they have been unable to duplicate. (Well, also, routine, and opportunity for real, free play and opportunity to mirror behavior and interact with people of all ages and experience a variety of daily activities and interactions, I could go on...) No amount of money, no new program, no longer school day or earlier starting age will ever substitute for that. And, in fact, as their own work shows, does more harm than good. Most of us parents know this.
I'm shocked that the number is that low, but it does explain a lot.
Ping. Check this out.
I would think that the reason more are expelled is because pre-k programs are not mandatory. Thus, teachers and administrater are allowed to expel problem kids instead of making the other students suffer and get their education delayed. Since k-12 is mandatory, tbey have to keep problem kids in at the other student's expense. Perhaps, we should study what parents do with the kids after they are expelled. Are the bad kids reprimanded? Is it a wake up call to the parent that their kid has "issues". Or, are they going to act shocked when their kid is cuffed and stuffed in kindergarten, then sue the school.
"Pre-kindergartners Left Behind"
The new book series from Tim LaHaye? :)