Making Children "Wards of the State"

Arkansas Publik Skulz ^ | 30 May 2003 | Margaret Brogley

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MAKING CHILDREN WARDS OF THE STATE
Date: Friday, May 30 @ 06:09:27
Topic Letters to Editor

THREE- AND FOUR-YEAR OLD KINDERGARTEN: MAKING CHILDREN WARDS OF THE STATE
Margaret Brogley
5/30/03

Dear Editor:

Has your state or community begun promoting the enrollment of three- and four-year-old children? The Van Buren/Fort Smith area has -- big time. Our daily newspaper, the Southwest Times Record, 5/19/03, had a huge article about it and was so convincing that I wanted to rush right down to enroll the three- and four-year-olds that I don¹t have for fear I would miss a good thing!

The title of the propaganda was: "Pre-kindergartens Help Prepare Children for Success" and subtitled "Many States Showing Interest in Funding Programs." It states that scientists, advocates for children, and policy makers are arguing for more classrooms that develop three- and four-year-old preschool mentally, emotionally, and socially. They argue on the basis of recent brain research studies. It also says forty states offer some of state supported pre-kindergarten, often for low-income families and that all states mandate services for those children with disabilities.

The proponents say that no state offers universal preschool for three-year-olds but the idea has received a lot of attention even when the budget is tight. A report from the Committee for Economic Development in New York says part-day, part-school year preschool costs $4,000-$5,000 per child per year.

Every four-year-old has been eligible in Georgia since 1995 for free, voluntary pre-kindergarten. The program began in 1992 as a limited program. In 1995 the Governor pushed legislation to include all four-year-olds.

The Pew Charitable Trust and the Trust for Early Childhood Education established the National Institute for Early Education Research as part of an effort to encourage the program.

MY COMMENTS ON THE ABOVE:
What you have just read is nothing but a continuation to make the child a ward of the state. The idea is not new by any means: just kept secret from most people. In 1931 my American History teacher told the class that there was such a plan afoot. I thought he was jesting, but I have lived long enough to see it happening. My teacher at that time was a recent graduate from Columbia University¹s Teachers College where John Dewey was teaching; therefore, I assume that he heard it from the horse's mouth.

Note that the parents are not pushing this idea, but the questionable Pew Charitable Trust is, along with the Trust for Early Childhood Education. The sooner the child is separated from the parents the easier it will be to turn him over to the state.

Since the Georgia Education Department was so successful with its pilot program, a conference for Early Childhood Education was held in Atlanta. I attended. The U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley was guest speaker as well as four from other countries. The thrust of the entire conference was to enroll the child from birth. We were even shown a video of a nine-month-old baby reading. However, it was obvious that the baby was Pavlovian trained. Don¹t be surprised if you are shown a similar video in the future.

We learn from New York that the cost is $4,000-$5.000 per year per child. The promoters want the program to be free for the parents, but it won¹t be free for taxpayers who will have to dig further into their pocketbooks at a time when all states are struggling with their budgets. This is idiocy!

Question: How could our Forefathers become so successful when there were no preschools for them to attend? Yet they gave us the most wonderful document devised by man!

The educrats admit the school system is a failure. As a result, they are continuing to reform it to fool us. Instead of getting to the root of the problem, which is progressive education, they plan to add the preschoolers to the problem and to churn out more socialists.

Stay tuned: more to come.

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[liberty or death]

Homeschooling, our local socialist's hate it :))

[aardvark1]

A report from the Committee for Economic Development in New York says part-day, part-school year preschool costs $4,000-$5,000 per child per year. Every four-year-old has been eligible in Georgia since 1995 for free, voluntary pre-kindergarten.

True double-speak!!!!! Free for only $5000.

[steplock]

Margaret Brogley PING!

[LiteKeeper]

Sociology SITREP

[Dr. Eckleburg]

In California Rob (Meathead) Reiner is pushing this as a stepping stone to run for office.

It's not enough they have our kids all day long for 20 years. Now they want them as toddlers.

"Prepares them for kindergarten." Idiots. That's what kindergarten is for -- to prepare them for first grade.

The socialists won't stop until they own them from day one.

[moyden2000]

Liberals are evil.

[netmilsmom]

I was told by my daughter's principle that my younger gifted daughter could not skip kindergarten but could skip 1st grade, because kindergarten is sooooo important.
BULL.
This child knows everything her sister has been presented in kindergarten (the older one knew it all anyway) and will have done two years in preschool. I am truly stuck here. Homeschooling is looking better and better.
Give me back my tax money and let me choose how my children are educated. Nothing is free.

[billhilly]

Yesterday, thanks to your post, I bookmarked the link to the source of this letter, and read it this morning.

While reading about this remarkable woman all I could think of was another woman, probably a decade older, who taught me, all of my brothers, and my sister. She taught seventh and eighth grade, and served as principal of a little four room, grades one through eight, school in far Western Kentucky.

Mrs. Zuanita Phelps (R.I.P.) left an indelible impression on each and every student, and their parents. In those days there was hardly a mention of money. There was none, but the teachers were dedicated and resourceful. I'll give one example. In eighth grade, Mrs. Zuanita made a large print, the size of a shoebox, of the word "ain't". She chose me to go out in the schoolyard and dig a hole large enough to bury a shoe box.

When I returned to the classroom she announced to the class that we were all going out to the schoolyard for a funeral. With much seriousness, she conducted a funeral for "ain't" and had us bury it in the shoe box. She then solemnly announced that "ain't" was dead and buried and that we were not to use it anymore. It worked. I'll never forget that lesson that occurred sometime around 1949.

[ladylib]

In Washington, DC, the city council tried to make preschool mandatory for children as young as 2 1/2.

Cooler heads prevailed.

[jimtorr]

"Prepares them for kindergarten." Idiots. That's what kindergarten is for -- to prepare them for first grade.

The socialists own studies, done 50 years ago, prove that pre-school and kindergarten are useless for the purpose of preparing children for school. They proved conclusivly that by the second grade there was no difference whatsoever in student learning between a child who attended kindergarten and a child who did not.

Six-year olds learn so quickly that kindergarten is useless for preparing a child for school.

The only purpose of any kind of government school before first grade that I can see, is for indoctrination purposes. They sell it to parents as child care.

[DakotaGator]

The sooner the child is separated from the parents the easier it will be to turn him over to the state.

That's exactly correct!

The "State is All" crowd does not believe in in the sovereignty of man. They believe that man is the property of the state.

Who are these people? They are communists, fascists, liberals, Democrats, National Education Association, etc. They are all the same. They only believe in power for themselves.

Their prefered way to power is "the children". They want to seize and indoctrinate "the children" to their way of thinking. And they do this through the school system.

This crowd of traitorous scum will always try to take your children. Their goals are; nurseries as part of the school system, transportation of the children to/from schools, school hours effectively from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, year-around school, all meals provided by the school, medical procedures controlled by the school, curriculum controlled by the school (not the local citizens), youth activities controlled by the school.

When you see "school" think "state". Because that's what it is. The state is stealing your children. Parents' role in this sick scheme is merely to produce children, give them to the state, and fork over lots of money so the state can raise them as it sees fit.

If we don't get the state out of the schools soon, we might as well all be part of "The Matrix"

[Dr. Eckleburg]

(I'm pinging Qwerty and C.P. because they don't believe the negative press public education is deservedly getting and have accused me of fabricating our educational horror stories. I wish.)

When our younger son was in elementary school, only a few years ago, we asked the principal why the school wasn't teaching the multiplication tables (reinforcing them for our son since he knew them when he was five).

The principal's answer to us was "children don't need to learn the multiplication tables because when they're at the grocery store they will have use of a calculator."

We sat stunned.

Being an ex-newspaper reporter, I asked if I could quote him on that and he said "certainly; this is what the state has mandated."

This elementary school is in an upper-middle class, multi-ethnic district with influential, liberal parents who think the state can do no wrong.

Their kids, now in high school, still can't multiply. And they've misplaced their calculators along with the keys to their Firebird and their Sports Club I.D.

My advice to parents embarking on the public school system is to know that you will need to be a vigilant watchdog; do not take "no" for an answer.

Polite, unambiguous persistence is everything. Good luck.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Yep. Indoctrination and child care.

And it allows the mothers to keep working for the almighty buck, leaving their kids in the hands of strangers.

It makes for a more pliable voting block 15 years down the road.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Pinging to one who knows.

[netmilsmom]

I can give a good one and my daughter is in a charter school. My older daughter is bright. She tested 2nd grade 4th month in math the second month of kindergarten and is the youngest in the class. Her classroom is chaos. Out of 19 kids 9 of them are behavior problems or need special attention (one has CP and one has neurological problems that her parents are working to diagnose). The teacher has a high tollerance for noice and disruption. She punishes the good kids and rewards the bad when they do well.

Well, my daughter (bored with the cut, color & paste of every assignment) started becoming a behavior problem and stashing her papers in her desk so she could go to "free time". She even stated that when she and another child (a bad one) were caught doing something, she had her card turned (punishment) and the other child did not.

I went to a conference with the teacher and explained that I have tried both punishment and reward with this child at home and nothing seemed to work. What can we do together?
The teacher says that my daughter has ADD.
I had worked for a psychiatrist at one time and had him evaluate my daughter, no ADD. She is bored.
Now the teacher just knows that she is right and will not go past the idea that she can't help my daughter because she has ADD.
To boot, I asked this teacher to hold my daughter accountable and not let her go to free time unless her work is finished. Last Friday I found eight papers in my daughter's desk. Oh that worked.
Only 10 more days of this.......

[netmilsmom]

Could you please give me a reference to that study?
I'm fighting a principal about it.

[ladylib]

I remember Pres. Clinton talking about turning public schools into 24-hour-a-day medical facilities, recreational facilities, and social service facilities. Everything in the community would revolve around the public schools, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

I'm sure Hillary is behind this early childhood education plan also. She is big on the government sticking its nose into every aspect of human life, from cradle to grave.

It didn't work in Russia. Why does she thinks it going to work here?

[martianagent]

placemarker

[ladylib]

Some parents realize that progressive education is all wrong for their children:

http://www.novaclassical.org/