And yes, that includes your children.
Posted on 07/09/2019 5:01:30 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Free public school starting at age four, or even three, is growing in many American cities. It’s gaining traction as a way to help young children learn the reading, counting and social skills that prepare them for kindergarten. It also promises to help close academic gaps between rich and poor children. Above all, it may have lasting benefits for attendees, including success in school and better lives as adults.
But promises are not guarantees, and universal pre-K works better in some places than in others. Washington, D.C., runs one of the country’s oldest, best-funded, most comprehensive pre-K systems. So what can other cities learn from Washington’s success?
Here’s how pre-K looks in one Washington classroom:
Amina, who is 4 years old and introduces herself as a writer, looks up from chopping plastic carrots. She and two of her classmates are pretending to cook a family meal together. Her “sister” Lesley, who said she is a librarian-professor, is prepping tomatoes. Their third “sister,” Madison — “I don’t work. I just sit on my computer all day,” she said — is making caramel for the salad. That doesn’t seem right, I say.
Amina shrugs. It’s an odd salad, but not out of bounds for the dramatic play center at the Parklands campus of AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School. It’s in the Shipley Terrace neighborhood of Washington, a largely low-income, African-American part of the city.
Amina gathers all the ingredients and passes me the bowl. “Here! Try some!”
Amina, Lesley and Madison are three of the more than 13,000 children enrolled in Washington’s universal public pre-K program.
The city introduced universal pre-K in 2008. Over the next decade, glittering rhetoric about pre-K’s benefits helped sell the public — and policymakers across the country — on the idea.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Kindergarten was supposed to be voluntary, half-day preparation for first grade. Now its mandatory in many states and is full day. As if 5yo need to be in school for a full day. Then comes universal pre-K for 4yo, and then 3yo. None of these programs will close academic gaps that result from IQ and culture. Married 2-parent families that think their 3yo should be at home won't benefit from the program but will pay taxes for it.
And then they have graduation ceremonies with cap and gown going into the 1st. grad.
And yes, that includes your children.
We are here: “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
So the young Comrades can learn to turn their parents in to the Kindergarten Commissars sooner.
It won’t be optional. The State wants to start brainwashing as early as possible.
Sadly, many parents more concerned with their lifestyle than their childrens’ welfare see this as a benefit; free daycare. So in exchange for being able to maintain two incomes, and in deference to the woman’s desire to “have it all”, these parents will one day discover that their previously loving, obedient child has been turned against them, and into a soulless Marxist automaton.
Pathetic.
ML/NJ
............ They are not “Public Schools” .... They’re “Public Indoctrination Centers” .... They want our children earlier so they can be more effective at imprinting acceptable behavior.
“Nothing more than indoctrination camps to make make lifelong brownshirts.”
Absolutely right. Plain and simple.
“Free public school starting at age four, or even three, is growing in many American cities. “
Why wait so long before the brain washing begins?
HS ping.
Homeschooling can start at any age. The parent can choose when to start based on the child. I know a young fella whose Mom started homeschooling him at age two. The kid is exceptionally bright. Friends are begging his Mom to put him in regular school where he can get a “structured” education. Not gonna happen.
They want your children, the sooner the better. My personal opinion- children should not start school until at least 5 years of age. The first two years should focus on informal, play style learning. Formal academic schooling should begin at the age of 7 or 8 depending on the readiness of the child.
The push for early schooling is based in part on the idea that parents will be a poor influence on their children.
You can even buy a gown with a PHD hood for your child who is to be graduated from K. Eye roll here.
There have been loads of studies showing that any benefit from the Head Start Program disappear after a few years. But these studies are nearly always ignored because cutting Head Start would be admitting failure.
So with DC schools starting at age 3, how well are the older students doing? I recall reading that at least one DC school was claiming that 100% of its graduates were heading to college even though some students attended only half the time. Oh yes, here it is: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/11/28/564054556/what-really-happened-at-the-school-where-every-senior-got-into-college
Parents don’t parent on the bad side of town. Many kids are lost causes from Day 1.
She's a staunch Old School Conservative and Trump fan. She's not the only one at this particular school either.
Point: as with most things, Pre-K programs are not all good, nor all bad. Hopefully more are like my wife's school than not, but I don't know. Ya prolly stand a lot better chance with a small town school than any other.
Institutionalization starting at 3. Talk about brain chemisrty n pathway patterns being permanently altered into a deindividuated existence. More psychos on the way.
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