Gee, just maybe early years spent at home with Mom, and Dad after work, are best after all? I'm sure the feminazis are busily stirring the pot scrambling to find or create new studies to support their agendas...
"Gee, just maybe early years spent at home with Mom, and Dad after work, are best after all?"
So true. Decades ago, during the Cold War, the Russians figured they might get ahead by starting their kids in school at age 4 instead of the traditional 5. (It also got Mom and Grandma back into the factories and fields.) But a few years later, these early starters began to stall in school, essentially wasting an entire year. What they discovered is that you can't actually hurry the process.
Japan has discovered that its high-pressure elementary and secondary schooling results in kids who essentially waste years at college, partying. In our own country, we wonder why so many of our youth are having trouble accepting the responsibilities of adulthood. I believe studies show so many are wasting away their twenties, unable to commit to anything.
Has it occurred to any of these groups that maybe children need a real childhood--with all its trappings of unstructured time, uncritical appreciation of creativity, and unconditional love--and that if they don't get it in the childhood years, they will try to get it in their later years, whether it be the fourth grade, college years, mid-twenties, or later? The saying, "It's never too late to have a great childhood" has an ominous connotation here.
Maybe we need to get off our children's backs, not put more on them.