Posted on 04/30/2017 11:52:34 AM PDT by digger48
NEW YORK (AP) — Free preschool for 4-year-olds was a signature issue that helped New York City’s mayor win office in 2013.
Now up for re-election, Bill de Blasio wants to add thousands of classroom seats for 3-year-olds, too.
His initiative, which could eventually enroll up to 62,000 kids, would be among the largest public investments in preschool in the United States for children that young.
A few states, including Florida and Oklahoma, have universal, publicly funded pre-K for 4-year-olds, but such programs for 3-year-olds are much more rare.
Education advocates said the plan announced last week by de Blasio, a Democrat, could be a national model if it succeeds.
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Own them for a lifetime
Teachers, leave them kids alone.
I see what you did there.
Lyrics from:
Another Brick in the Wall, by Pink Floyd.
No doubt to fill their young minds with ideas of socialism, homosexuality, and drugs.
The primary purpose of every one of these school programs in NYC is to make sure the children of the city’s underclass spend as little time at home as possible.
Can’t start too soon to turn your children against you and into Commies at the same time.
Right.
Old Marxist method of mind control. Start with the children.
Why not just set up breeding farms, a lot cheaper.
It’s NOT free.
The indoctrination of young children cannot be tolerated. No federal funds for this crap. Just for starters.
Asked if it was realistic to count on state and federal funds, de Blasio said he did not want to be “held back by our current reality.”
I cannot believe sometimes how many people fail to see the grave danger of government education. Parents are responsible for educating children, not the government. I have said for years that conservatives will never completely stamp out the scourge of leftism until “public” schools are abolished once and for all.
This isn’t “school.” It’s daycare. And more teachers for the teacher’s unions.
Deputy New York City schools chancellor Josh Wallack said the preschool program for 3-year-olds will focus on social and emotional development as well as language skills that will lay the foundation for learning to read.
Gone are the days when a kid started the first grade when FIVE years old. No Kindergarten back then. We still did well.
Good luck. At least of them will not be potty trained by 3.
Makes me wonder why these women even want kids. Good grief, the youngins’ don’t have a chance.
This will be a great blessing to the kids’ moms. Now the moms will be able to lounge on the sofa in front of the TV all day without interruption.
Sorry...meant “half of them”
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