Sorry I am so late to your post, but I thought you might like to see this, just in case you missed it when it first was posted back in April...
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Posted on 08/06/2005 6:04:59 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
Re: Preschool-For-All Initiative
Dear Mr. Reiner,
I am a fan of your films including When Harry Met Sally, Ghosts of Mississippi, and This Is Spinal Tap. I am not a fan of your politics.
Rumor Has It that you have introduced a Preschool-For-All initiative that will be on the California ballot in 2006. While I realize that you have great concern for every little Alex & Emma whose parents cannot properly care for them (as demonstrated in your movie <North, about a boy who divorces negligent and self-absorbed parents who are always too busy with their careers to give him the attention he needs), I fail to see the logic in your push to provide taxpayer funded preschools for every child regardless of want or need.
The latest scientific research by A Few Good Men and women such as brain specialists and child psychologists shows that little children learn best through imaginative play and exploration in the safe and secure environment of their own homes, under the watchful guidance of loving parents who have their children's best interests at heart. Parents who read wonderful stories like the "The Princess Bride" to their children, and who engage in discussions with their kids, and show them how to do things, and introduce them to the bounty of life, fully prepare them for school and life success. The ideal is to keep early learning All In The Family.
Yet, "The Sure Thing" you propose in your bill would separate little kids too early in life from their parents, and force them to be indoctrinated with standardized curriculum in the artificial environment of a school institution under the supervision of tenured teachers who deliver the curriculum because they get paid to do it. That sounds like Misery to me.
The American President, George W. Bush, is moving the Head Start program for at-risk children ages 2-5 to the Department of Education to make sure that it is an early learning and education program that prepares poor young children to succeed academically. As you can see, there are government programs already in place to help the underprivileged and poverty-stricken (about 20% of the population).
Speaking as one of the other 80% of the population, The Story of Us is that we don't need government preschools with standardized curriculum that researchers say can harm our kids. We want what's best for our children. We hear them when they say; "I Am Your Child," and we accept full responsibility for their care and education.
I respectfully ask you to reconsider your position and Stand By Me and thousands of preschool children and their parents in opposing government Preschool-For-All.
Diane Flynn Keith,
Publisher, www.UniversalPreschool.com
Author of Carschooling, www.Carschooling.com
Editor-In-Chief, www.Homefires.com
posted: August 5, 2005
How 'bout The West Wing?
Hah?...HAH???
Hey Meathead...you should have listened to your father in law...about everything.
Our governor here in Arizona reminds me a lot of him. First it was a push for all day kindergarten. Next a push for government funded preschool.
Actually, it's the parents who give a good gosh darn about their kids' futures who send them to preschool. That's why those kids surpass their peers in schooling.
Rob Reiner's utopia is to flood preschools with kids whose parents don't give a tinker's damn about their kids. Thus, the preschools will be quickly reduced to the same level of mediocrity that the public schools "enjoy"...thanks entirely to the touchy-feely f***ed-in-the-head Leftists.
Watch him run for Governor--- he's got a bad case of "Arnold Envy".
These liberals are always talking about how they care for the kids and then go and vote for an SOB thats pushing partial birth abortion. I don't get it.
I think his thinking is extremely flawed. The most inportant thing is to have a parent around during those early formative years, to help guide and edicate them. My wife is active duty Navy, so I took a break during the earily years of both out children's lives ( still at home with my daughter, just turning 4), and became the stay at home dad. We took a big hit, with living on just her income, but I think it worked out a lot better then us both working and her being raised be day care!
Depends. Can we do whatever we want with him?
He was born rich. He's never had to worry about money.
He does't understand working people.
"you propose in your bill would separate little kids too early in life from their parents, and force them to be indoctrinated with standardized curriculum in the artificial environment of a school institution under the supervision of tenured teachers who deliver the curriculum because they get paid to do it. That sounds like Misery to me."
This pretty much sums it up. This is what the future looks like for our children; if a stop is not done now to this absurb nonsense. They have been indoctrinating for years. They have been destroying America for what it is. We all know this. Does Mr. Reiner believe he will be elected Czar of the Children in his utopian myth?
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