[toenail]

Bigger, intrusive, centralized monitoring and manipulation of children from "conservative" Bush. The assault on the Constitution, children, and families continues....

[ppaul]

Throwing hard-earned taxpayer dollars into a rathole that grows bigger everyday.
Haven't we had enough of 'legacy building' yet?

[conserve-it]

I read a study somewhere that 35% of the children receiving this program are not qualified to be getting it, as the family income is too high. That is of course why Bush is throwing more money at it. He wants the non qualified rate to exceed 50% !!!!!!

[Fred Mertz]

Groan!! This guy is so predictable these day. If he had a pair, he'd end this Head Start nannyism.

If clinton announced this, this thread would already be 100 replies long.

[Arthur McGowan]

Not that anyone in this unprincipled, totalitarian White House will care, but where in the Constitution does it say that Americans' children are the property of the Federal Government?

[AppyPappy]

Spend, spend, spend. Of course, the Bushies will tell us that the Democrats will now flock to Bush.

[toenail]

ping

[Ken H]

The powers not granted to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People.
-Amendment X

IMO, it is naive to think conservative ideals can be implemented through a Federal education bureaucracy founded on very shakey constitutional grounds.

Federal bureaucracies will always have more people who think like Hillary Clinton than George W. Bush.

[BigTime]

Is it just me, or since Bush signed Campaign Finance Reform, do others get the sense that he has calculated a move to the middle and is now abandoning "conservatism" at least as far as domestic policy is concerned?

I'm no fair weather fan when it comes to Bush. I volunteered for the guy during his campaign. But I really fear that his operatives have calculated a turn towards the middle and are more openly embracing liberal strategies.

As conservatives, I believe we are being played for suckers if we constantly claim that this is only a ploy to keep voters in the middle happy and that he will return to conservative roots after the Nov. elections.

I really believe we're seeing something dangerous going on here and I think the Bushies need to know that we're not going to abide by it.

[Lizavetta]

Strengthen Head Start to improve the quality of experiences for young children, including training the nearly 50,000 Head Start teachers in the latest and best techniques;

Hopefully this doesn't include gynecology (remember the pelvic checks for "abuse"?)

[WhiteGuy]

The government school system is a failure.

Unfortunately it is going to get much much worse
and cost US billions more before there is any improvement.

Get your kids out now!

[SouthCarolinaKit]

As someone who never was inside a school room until going to first grade (parochial) at the age of six, and who never had trouble with learning from that age through getting bachelors in Math and Physics sixteen years later, I don't understand why children below the age of six are not allowed to have their playtime. The state is not the family and now amount of money will ever replace it.

[Yaelle]

Head Start has been proven not to work. Its few achievements exist simply because free preschool is a better environment than some of the kids' home lives. After a few years, any help from Head Start is no longer seen in the kids' educational progress.

A better idea, undertaken by a President with real cojones who wouldn't even bother to pander for votes but would try to achieve something in the first four years at his own political risk, would be to STRONGLY encourage marriage for parents of young children. A family environment, with one parent around most of the time, is far better for preschoolers than preschool is, for three reasons.

Socially, at home with a parent who thinks the world of him, a preschooler feels important and feels he has a special place in the world. He belongs, and he learns how his world works, with his only sense of security there by his side (his parent).

Educationally, he has the confidence to try new things, and the one-on-one attention he needs to keep trying them. A normal day with Mom or Dad provides incredible learning experiences, and if Mom or Dad adds reading to him and taking him to interesting places, so much the better.

Last but definitely not least, medically, a preschooler's immune system is weak. All those kids together in one room, not old enough yet for much hygiene, gives rise to the most germy atmosphere in our society, and the kids do suffer when they catch all the bugs going around. You can't learn much when you are sick.

Throwing money at Head Start is only the appearance of helping young children. I am sorry he chose this tactic.

[Spiff]

More socialist nonsense brought to you by RINO Bush.

You can keep your stolen money (stolen from the taxpayers) and your unconstitutional welfare state social programs - I homeschool. You're not going to brainwash my kids and I'm not going to use stolen money to feed them, house them, clothe them, or educate them.