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The reason preschool in the U.S. is a "patchwork quilt" or "nonsystem" is that kids have different needs and their parents have varying attitudes toward preschool (which is often primarily daycare). Some 3-year-olds may thrive in preschool, but other 3yo should be at home. Some mothers work full time, but many others work part time or stay at home because they want to care for and educate their children themselves. Taxpayer-funded "free" preschool will do nothing for families that want to keep their young children at home. (Of course, SAHMs *do* take their kids to libraries, playgrounds, etc.) Liberals think the raising of young children should be managed by the government.

The article mentions a woman whose two kids attend an $18K per year preschool funded by the government and foundations. Gold-plated preschools for poor children will cause other parents, especially mothers, to wonder if they are suckers for working.

1 posted on 12/21/2008 7:25:20 AM PST by reaganaut1
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More indoctrination.

Will not solve nor even dent the real problems with US education.


2 posted on 12/21/2008 7:27:52 AM PST by Bon mots
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“Some people seem to think the Great Society is upon us again.”

yet the results of Project Follow Through will still be ignored.
http://www.zigsite.com/for_readers_not-familar_with_project_follow_through.html


3 posted on 12/21/2008 7:28:37 AM PST by ari-freedom (The 'Ch' in Chanuka is like the Spanish 'j')
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Obama has already demonstrated how to solve the school problem with his own children.

Don’t send them to stupid public skoolz.
Pay $50,000.00 per year for them to be educated by white people in a private school.

School choice for the rich.
The poor get institutionalized in substandard violent cess-schools.


4 posted on 12/21/2008 7:29:21 AM PST by Bon mots
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May I be so bold as to suggest people get an education or trade, get a job, earn money, get married, have children and then PAY to have them enrolled in a school or stay at home and take care of them yourself! Liberals are puke!


5 posted on 12/21/2008 7:29:24 AM PST by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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HOPE!!! HOPE!!!! CHANGE!!!! CHANGE!!!! MORE HOPE!!! MORE CHANGE!!! Definition: more taxes, more government control of our lives, liberalism, socialism (which is really just a milder buzz word for COMMUNISM.)
6 posted on 12/21/2008 7:29:30 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Great patriotic stuff at www.patriotstore.us.)
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“Some people seem to think the Great Society is upon us again.” ...
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It is all BULL EXCREMENT. This is nothing but MORE SOCIALIST INDOCTRINATION lies. Obama, and his oppressive socialist agenda remain a HUGE threat to a free America.


7 posted on 12/21/2008 7:30:37 AM PST by EagleUSA
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So far all the money that we the people have given to the teachers union has caused the schools to go down not up. So this will be another bunch of money that will be used to get votes for the left and ruin out nation as they want.


9 posted on 12/21/2008 7:32:52 AM PST by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
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GREAT..does this mean that kids will learn, at an even earlier age, how to wear their pants around their thighs? /s (but just barely)


10 posted on 12/21/2008 7:33:06 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
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In my region, Head Start and these “early childhood” programs are nothing more than free daycare so that Momma can make more babies without the children getting in the way.


11 posted on 12/21/2008 7:33:45 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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The sole purpose of these programs is to allow the state to indoctinate our children against capitalism and for socialism at an early age.

Conservatives have lost the battle because we allow and fund these programs.

Which are unconstitutional, not that the constitution matters any longer.


14 posted on 12/21/2008 7:35:31 AM PST by stockpirate (Give me liberty or give me some one else's earnings. Redistribute earnings!)
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Gee, I have an idea. Take the yokes off the parents; hand their children back to them to raise; return the money you are stealing from them and shut and stay the you know what away from them.


16 posted on 12/21/2008 7:38:10 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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Let the indocrtination begin.


17 posted on 12/21/2008 7:42:12 AM PST by HondaCRF450
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>>>Now, Head Start is a $7 billion federal program serving about 900,000 preschoolers<<<

Thats $7800.00 PER CHILD per year. WORTHLESS WASTE


19 posted on 12/21/2008 7:47:17 AM PST by hamburglar (The result of spreading the wealth around is spreading unemployment around.)
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Why would government want to control what our kids are taught. Hint, they may actually learn to think:

8th grade exam late 1800’s Geography (Time, one hour)

1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?

2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?

3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?

4. Describe the mountains of North America.

5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall & Orinoco.

6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.

7. Name all the republics of Europeand give the capital of each.

8. Why is the Atlantic Coastcolder than the Pacific in the same latitude?

9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.

10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.

20 posted on 12/21/2008 7:50:01 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The tree of liberty is getting mighty dry)
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Head start, Breakfast For Kids at school, No Child Left Behind are all nothing more than another step on the march toward collectiveism.

Big government advocates and other socialists know that children raised in these environments are more attuned to the state collective providing for them and less familiar with traditions of independance, self reliance and merit.

Its like McDonalds - catch them early and they’re yours for life.

The proof is the millions of mindless followers of Obama who fell for his promises of more and more “wealth redistribution.”

They want the government to be their mommy and daddy - even when they are well into what used to pass for adulthood.


22 posted on 12/21/2008 7:52:05 AM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself)
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There have been no long term study that can show a real difference between children who have attended Head Start and children who do not attend Head start. There are some real difference in the first years but then the differences disappear after around fifth grade.
23 posted on 12/21/2008 7:53:41 AM PST by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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"Liberals think the raising of young children should be managed by the government."

How, otherwise, would liberalism be able to construct a proletariat which is a government managed guaranteed voting bloc. And, what better way is there to guarantee that bloc's continuing renewal than to continually infuse young minds with liberal doctrine. Originality of thought does not (and can not) exist in such a body of people and, because of that lack of originality, the nation will be enfeebled.

24 posted on 12/21/2008 7:56:44 AM PST by davisfh ( Islam is a very serious mental illness)
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“People are absolutely ecstatic,” said Cornelia Grumman, executive director of the First Five Years Fund, an advocacy group. “Some people seem to think the Great Society is upon us again.”

These people know what they are doing.....

.....Take away the family bond and influence immediately and for the first 5 years and you have a good little Kommunist in the future.

27 posted on 12/21/2008 8:02:23 AM PST by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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Jobs program for incompetent teachers.


28 posted on 12/21/2008 8:03:09 AM PST by Carley
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Welcome to the machine.


32 posted on 12/21/2008 8:15:32 AM PST by thecabal (We care a lot)
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