Broken Promises: what Head Start should have been but wasn’t

RightSideNews ^ | June 14, 2013 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[grania]

My point is that with all of the materials and trained teachers and unbelieveable resources, the kids will still lag behind if the parents aren’t held repsonsible. To assume otherwise is acknowledging that the government can do a better job raising children than loving, caring children can.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

Okay, I see your argument.

But I’m at the point in education where I say take any gains you can get, large or small, however you can get them. Some parents are not going to do the job. So let others do it. If the parents do the job, okay great.

I’m very cynical about our Education Establishment. If a job isn’t being done or is being done badly, they’ll sit back and let it stay that way. This being the history of Head Start related in the article.

[grania]

I'm at the point in education where I say take any gains you can get...

I've been a teacher for 46 years. It's never been perfect. There have always been bad parents, bad teachers, bad administrators, bad kids. It's very rare to find an environment where people are satisfied with the results.

I don't disagree with you. But sometimes a gain is not a gain. My head is spinning from this Head Start experience. It made me wonder if giving the kids so much is backfiring. They're only four years old. Do they end up expecting such resources? I don't know the answer.