Posted on 02/24/2019 5:56:45 PM PST by Libloather
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But even supposing the “ultra-rich” would hold still while the state extracted a fixed yearly portion of their net worth, any plan for universal pre-K deserves skepticism — the opposite of what most news stories convey. ABC News, for example, contends, “The benefits of early child care have long been documented, even showing taxpayers can make money back when investing in high-quality early education.”
This is tendentious and wrong. The links ABC provided don’t even support its assertion. The first is to a National Education Association publication (hardly a neutral arbiter), citing one famous study of extremely high-quality day care, the Abecedarian Early Childhood Intervention Project. That program got good results, but it was utterly unrepresentative of most day cares in the U.S. It was generously funded and staffed by college graduates. Teachers read aloud to the children, responded to their questions and encouraged their abilities. According to a 2006 survey by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, only 9 percent of American preschools were rated “very high quality.”
The second link ABC provided also references the small unrepresentative Abecedarian program, but this paper, far from agreeing that the benefits of day care are “documented,” notes that the matter is “strongly contested.”
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Same here.
Democrat Campaign 2019
Cat Fight to see who can promise to redistribute the most taxpayer money.
Recycling the old Obama/Hillary strategery: “Vote for me and I will give you free stuff.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarian
Regards,
This is all about free babysitting for the Julia vote.
Pre-K is already available.
It’s not “some indoctrination thrown in”; the indoctrination is the whole point.
I didn’t go to KG, didn’t exist in my town in 1956. They have it now. Our kids didn’t get to go to Pre-K, they didn’t have it back then. I paid for them to go to Pre School. I now pay for school tax and we will never have a kid in school here, our kids are grown. Our grandkids do not live close. So it is all money blowing in the wind, gone, wasted.... I need a refund for all the money we have spent on public school and private school BEFORE Pokie Haunt Us give out free school!
I love Ron Paul! He came to all of our Christmas parties in Lake Jackson.
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