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Head Start Is Closing Down All Over
First Hand ^ | 2-25-2011 | A CA Guy

Posted on 02/25/2011 6:49:18 PM PST by A CA Guy

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Almost only Spanish only speakers use this program in CA, so it is in some way an illegals baby sitting service. Hope the Democrats don't wiggle this into politics, because this is nothing compared to the cuts that need to be IMO.
1 posted on 02/25/2011 6:49:21 PM PST by A CA Guy
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Free baby sitting. I didn't have head start or kindergarten when I was a kid, I had parents.
2 posted on 02/25/2011 6:52:14 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
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Head Start is something I haven’t thought of in years. I used to be involved in the weekly 4 hour live uplink that went nationwide. Talk about dull air.


3 posted on 02/25/2011 6:53:51 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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My mother was one of the earliest employees of head start and worked for them for nearly 20 years. It became all about the grant money.

Just one more federal money hole and social programing nursery.


4 posted on 02/25/2011 6:53:53 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Sittin’ here chuckling at that great tagline.


5 posted on 02/25/2011 6:54:18 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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Head Start is supposed to provide great academic support for young disadvantaged students. It doesn’t. The advantages are very short term and the advantages disappear in a couple of years. This is a true liberal feel good program. And it is as effective as most true liberal feel good programs.


6 posted on 02/25/2011 6:54:27 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Exactly. Racist bullshit program. White kids start school at age 5, black and brown kids start school at 3 - a "head start".

And of course White parents pay for the vast majority of the program.

The Welfare state is failing, and with it much of "minority achievement" - a fantasy made up of special programs, welfare, affirmative action and government jobs will dispear with it. Much of the black middle class will disapear with FedGov, thought the NFL and NBA guys will still be making the big bucks.

It's gonna be an interesting decade.

7 posted on 02/25/2011 6:55:03 PM PST by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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She may know the name Carolyn Dorell, she was the presenter of nationwide Head Start video uplinks that went on for years.


8 posted on 02/25/2011 6:55:03 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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My mom made me breakfast until she taught me how to cook my own.


9 posted on 02/25/2011 6:59:24 PM PST by Walmartian
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bump!


10 posted on 02/25/2011 7:01:14 PM PST by Leisler (Our debts are someone's profit. Follow the money, the vig.....)
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When my mother finally walked away she was transportation director for this region. It was the unionista bus drivers that finally drove her out. Bunch of vicious drunken animals demanding more money than was in the budget.


11 posted on 02/25/2011 7:01:40 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Minorities are raised believing that makeing it in the middle class is a government job of ANY sort. They are taught that these are the only jobs they cannot be fired from no matter how bad the economy or how piss poor their performance.

I walk into a Federal building in a 95% white area and 50% plus of the employees are minorities. Some places it’s more like 80%.


12 posted on 02/25/2011 7:04:15 PM PST by liberty or death
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Where immigrants (any immigrants) come from, government jobs are about the only ones that aren’t “black market,” and there for subject to extortion, clearance, or jail time.

Sort of like the US is getting to be. Want to braid your friends’ hair for a little snack money? Don’t try it!


13 posted on 02/25/2011 7:08:42 PM PST by Tax-chick (Some brothers have humongous monsters, and some don't. Live with it.)
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“Hope the Democrats don’t wiggle this into politics”

I assure you politics is the reason Head Start was chosen for closure first.

The media wants red meat and the Dems serve it up. Angry mothers without government-supplied baby-sitters will be sicced on Republicans.
“Women and minorities hardest hit” the first phrase taught in J-school.


14 posted on 02/25/2011 7:11:12 PM PST by mrsmith
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I think that it was really meant for those children who needed early intervention but then it just became a free babysitting service.

Now they have to have other government funded programs for special needs children.


15 posted on 02/25/2011 7:14:47 PM PST by tiki
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they have learned to game the system, just like they have every other government program or handout.

They serve the shortest stint possible in the military to collect military benefits for life, then work one government job after another for the absolute minimum to collect retirement benefits for life (in many cases at nearly full pay). By the time they are done, they are collecting 3 or more retirements, getting free healthcare at the VA, and collecting social security disability on top of it all because at some point along the way they hurt their back *cough*

It makes me sick.

16 posted on 02/25/2011 7:15:06 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Carter 2.0 The Epic Fail Edition)
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Thanks A CA Guy.
The Los Angeles times in the source link is there to show you they already blamed Republicans even though in this state the Democrats run the show.

17 posted on 02/25/2011 7:17:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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The people I have experience with at the federal and state jobs are usually born and raised here. Mostly blacks from different cities willing to move anywhere for what they have been taught is success. A government job. My main point isn’t that they are bad it’s that this is all many have “learned” growing up. That is sad in this great country.

Immigrants in my area? maybe 1% and they work mostly for the local farms and ranches. Paid housing in good homes, good wages and freedom.


18 posted on 02/25/2011 7:18:07 PM PST by liberty or death
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Thee mother5s need to stay home and be mothers. It is criminal to drop kids off at age 3. These women should be prosecuted.


19 posted on 02/25/2011 7:20:35 PM PST by Benchim
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My sister who works for Head Start says next Friday is it in CA.

One or two months ago, there was a report that the White House requested from the OMB, "grading" Federal Programs from 0 to 100% effectiveness. Anything below 70% can safely be considered questionable; under 40% is a clear "FAIL".

As I recall, Head Start was in the mid 30s.
Unfortunately, the bureaucracy sees to it that any embarrassing data like that is virtually impossble for the ordinary citizen to obtain. I spent a couple of days trying to download the data in the form it was presented on cable news, but failed.
OMG! I just tried again and here it is...

Rating Decades Old Ongoing Failed Federal Programs

Worth poking around, even if the site forces you to find the data for each of the gazillion Federal Departments separately. And the numerical rating is not given; however, ineffective pretty much covers it.
I laugh when the elected and appointed criminals in the Executive Department ask us with moronic expressions, "where do you want us to cut?

Are you s******g me?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/rating/notperform.html

20 posted on 02/25/2011 7:21:12 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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