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Obama Pledge Stirs Hope in Early Education
New York Times ^
| December 16, 2008
| Sam Dillon
Posted on 12/21/2008 7:25:20 AM PST by reaganaut1
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To: 4woodenboats
....more complete education than what's offered now, or when I went to school.Same here. I was fortunate when I went to school they still taught phonetics and how to sound out words.
Both my Mom and Dad took a big interest in teaching me, my Mom reading and my Dad math. I was reading before I even started school, not because I'm brilliant or anything but my folks took an active interest.
Most parents today really don't seem to give a hoot about their kids, let alone their education (and I won't even bring up manners)...guess we can consider ourselves among the lucky ones.
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12/21/2008 2:04:48 PM PST
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Las Vegas Ron
(The tree of liberty is getting mighty dry)
To: RetiredArmy
we adopted our first son through the county CFS... he was almost five when we met him... he could not talk well at all, he could not name more than two colors, he could not count to three... knew maybe two shapes... he was in a Head Start program... he was about ready to go into Kindergarten... when i mentioned to his teachers that i was surprised at how little prepared he was for school (after all, i was used to nieces and nephews who could read before they started school) they said, we do not focus so much on teaching them that here... this program is mainly focused on "nutrition." WWWWWHHHAAATTT? i thought Head Start was all about getting these underprivileged kids ready to compete on a level playing field with their privileged classmates... the bar just keeps being lowered...
within five months of living with us, our son was reading...
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12/21/2008 3:07:58 PM PST
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latina4dubya
( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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