Cut off was age 5 on Feb 1st...half way through the school year.
My granddaughter was a whole year older 5 Y 9 m when she started.
Head start is just a babysitting program...and proven to be of no benefit...except to .........
except to working minority single moms?
If I could be a benevolent dictator for a few years, one of the “programs” I would shut down is feeding kids at school.
Since when is it the taxpayer’s job to feed kids? We never had these programs when I went to school. It needs to be stopped, forcing parents to take care of their own kids. It’s one of those programs that will only expand, once started. Like Newt said, it’s like throwing chunks of fish in the water to feed the dolphins. Pretty soon you have ten times more dolphins and they no longer bother to find their own food.
If certain neighbourhoods needs to assist people, let the parents get involved with the local churches. That way there’s at least some accountability.