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So please stop lying.
Perhaps things are different where you live but a lot of babies go pretty much straight from the womb to daycare.
The utility of instruction at that age may be debatable, but I think the benefits of having more time spent being talked to and read to during early childhood development are pretty well substantiated.
While he's at it, throw in universal daycare for 1-3 year olds.
Whether or not the kids love it, public education is nice, and provides some value in peer interaction, but it is no replacement for the time a parent can invest. I'd much rather see that $10 billion invested in college education subsidies. (Most parents are probably able to teach children basic skills, such as reading and writing, whereas most parents are probably not able to teach Calculus or college level writing skills.)
I can personally vouch, although not through any academic way, for the benefits of early childhood education. As it is now, my wife and I are trying everything to be able to put our next one in some ECE program.
In Real American families that actually parent their children those years are much better spent with a parent at home.
In the HomoLiberal Child Hating Qunited States of Gammorica those same children are much better off at school than they would be at home, or parked in daycare.
So it makes perfect sense that Baby Daddy Barack would offer FREE preschool to the tens of millions of unmarried Hoochie HoMama women who make up his base.....
Moral of the story: If HomoLiberal HoMamas are not going to slaughter their babies (the merciful thing to do...) they best send them off to school as soon as possible.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-ar…
You would be flamed, and quite rightly so, for being so dense as to spout your ill-informed wrong opinions on Slog. Yet again.
Even after folks have (politely) pointed out links to fact-based and peer-reviewed studies that prove the opposite of what you assert.
Not really. School tends to pound everyone down to the same level. It makes the teachers' jobs easier, and we all know teachers are the number one top martyrs anywhere. Anything to make their jobs easier. And no bragging! Everyone be the same, or at least learn to act like you are.
You'd be surprised.
The sad part, to me anyway, is is that you're not seeing those years at home until 6 as precious as they are, and are willing to so freely subjugate the last 2 for what you see as the greater good as you see it. We can only agree to disagree on this one, there is no one size fits all.
For good measure: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-ar…
Poor kids, maybe.
Getting them out of their dysfunctional homes is advantageous to them.
But taking children from functional homes where they receive parental care and attention from competent loving parents (admittedly, rarer and rarer in the Qunited States of Gammorica...) sets those children back.
Your studies won't tell you that because your Liberal researchers are not looking to prove that and design their studies accordingly.
Surely you are aware how social "science" research (aka HomoLiberal Advocacy) works.....
I started French immersion in the second year of Kindergarten - my first year had been English, but Sesame Street made me think that learning another language would be cool.
I had no idea that the US didn't have two years of Kindergarten.
Typically, American kids have two years of preschool available to them, beginning at age 3. Depending on the district, it may or may not be offered through the public schools; there are always preschools with no affiliation to a school district, or to a private or parochial school. But it's completely voluntary, and parents usually have to pay tuition, even if it's at public school.
Exactly. The less time po' kids spend around their mamas the better.
I've never heard of Kindergarten for kids younger than five, personally. Many, many decades ago, when I was four, I went to preschool, and then Kindergarten when I was five.
Also pretty hilarious timing coming after this month's HHS report on the inefficacy of Head Start:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports…
So they can learn how to cuss, smoke weed, watch TV, do nothing all day but sleep around and have multiple babies with multiple daddies? Better they be taken by the state 8 hrs a day.