Posted on 12/27/2006 5:59:04 PM PST by wintertime
That too!
What a $illy idea!
Aren't there some rock pile somewere that we could conscript the NEA officials into breaking into tiny gravel?
>>>universal preschool and full-day kindergarten<<<<<
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My daughetr did both full day pre-school and kindergarten and LOVED......however, she did so by my choice. I do not and will not support either being mandatory.
As a parent it is my responsibility to see to her education, regardless of what route I choose to utilize for said education.
wintertime, you are the most bitter, jealous poster I've ever seen on FreeRepublic.
My daughter did preschool. One of my sons didn't want to.
Even full time K is too much for some. Full time should be by choice. K isn't even manadtory in all states. I doubt many even realize that.
I'm stuck on the mandatory.
The best answer I know to poppycock like this:
http://www.nea.org/presscenter/actionplan1.html
is this:
The Underground History of American Education
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc2.htm
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc3.htm
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc4.htm
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc5.htm
and especially this:
Chapter Fifteen
The Psychopathology Of Everyday Schooling
None of the familiar school sequences is defensible according to the rules of evidence, all are arbitrary; most grounded in superstition or aesthetic prejudice of one sort or another. Pestalozzi’s basic “Simple to Complex” formulation, for instance, is a prescription for disaster in the classroom.
What Really Goes On
School wreaks havoc on human foundations in at least eight substantive ways so deeply buried few notice them, and fewer still can imagine any other way for children to grow up:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/15d.htm
If you're referring to the severely mentally retarded, many of them already attend public schools until they are 21. In some cases, it's mostly respite care for the families...
I do see that the NEA has coopted one of your suggestions from a thread a couple of weeks ago:
Involve families in students' learning at school and at home in new and creative ways so that all families-single-parent families, families in poverty, and families in minority communities-can support their children's academic achievement, help their children engage in healthy behaviors, and stay actively involved in their children's education from preschool through high school graduation.
Do you still agree that schools ought to be helping dysfunctional families?
I'm sure I would fail, as evidenced by the GRE, SAT scores and by my masters from University of Virginia. Yep, I'd fail for sure!
Must one attend high school to obtain a high school education?
My grandfather's formal schooling ended with the eighth grade. Nevertheless, he was better educated than the average high school graduate of today. Anyone having the desire to learn and the ability to read can obtain an education.
The mandatory is also my problem.
Students with disabilities may attend school until the year in which they turn 22 or until they have earned a diploma, whatever comes first. For those with severe and profound disabilities, the school is often a god-send and after school ends, they often go to institutions because the parents are not capable of caring for them.
"That's a billion a year? What the hell are the going to do? "
Thats 9.9 billion to the union and the .1 left will buy a few lunches to motivate teachers
More welfare for the nincompoops in the NEA.
I'm surprised they did not include making homeschooling illegal.
If 12 years isnt enough for the union to teach kids how to read what good will a couple more do?
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