[ProtectOurFreedom]

They don't call it daycare anymore, and of course they don't call it babysitting, which it really is. The new gimmick label is pre-K, meaning before kindergarten.

No, it really is forcibly removing the child from the home to make him a good servant of THE STATE.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
  -- Vladimir Lenin

[Lisbon1940]

What about K and post-K?

[stockpirate]

Many republicans are also left-wing fascists and totally support the left-wing agenda, just look at the US House and Senate republicans.

[tbw2]

The only case I might see made for Pre-K would be one limited to children whose families don’t speak English as a first language. Then pre-K could get the kids fluent in English before Kindergarten so they could be mainstreamed in first grade.
But there is no reason for everyone to need pre-K to get ready for Kindergarten.

[SandRat]

My Day Care and Pre-K was called Mom, Sunday School & Vacation Bible School.

[Dr. Sivana]

Studies indicate that for pre-K to be truly effective, and supplementary program called pre-pre-K should be introduced.

[Tax-chick]

Why are these Republicans willing to accept Obama's claim that pre-K "works" ...

Because voters like "free" daycare.

[Carry_Okie]

I started my kids reading just after they turned three. By the time they were six they were reading college-level material.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The bottom line of pre-K is different for Republicans and Democrats. Democrats have their perverse "It takes a village" theory, an outgrowth of "the state must raise all children to be loyal to the state", socialist idea best observed in Romania under the vile dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who "raised" orphans to be murderous, sociopathic secret policemen. Yeah, Hillary, "It takes a village" to create a sociopath. Republicans, however, have a much simpler reason to support pre-K -- to give poor children exposure to good adult role models away from their "toxic" mothers or parents, many of whom should never ever be around children because of their bad behavior. The Republican attitude is that a mother who is a "crack whore", with a string of "baby daddies", who wants to "party" instead of raising her young children properly, subsisting on welfare and living in a housing project; should never raise children at all. So any effort to separate her children from that, so they can at least see how people *can* live, should be considered. Phyllis Schlafly is not incorrect that pre-K is worthless and counterproductive for normal children from normal families; but the bottom line may be that if people are *willing* to put their young children in pre-K, they probably *need* to, and their children need help from adults *other* than their parent or parents.

[Vaduz]

Taxpayer-funded = Socialism