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Posted on 11/30/2004 2:28:45 PM PST by Lorianne
Our tax policies have forced too many moms to work and too many dads to work more than one job or a job with long hours. Our culture encourages consumption and spoiling of children with too many things that parents feel they have to pay for. Many parents have to work to afford private school because the public schools are so bad. There are many things we could do as a society to help parents be able to spend more time with their kids.
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>>>I have some real misgivings about the Pre-K concept, but some school administrators swear by the improved results in reading, etc that you see in children who attend Pre-K.
Of course the school administrators swear by it. They get more money for their salaries and the parents still have to subsidize for school supplies.
I agree with the tax burden. That was included with my cost of living. I have no idea what you mean by the desire to consume though.
I work from the home so I can be with my children and my husband is struggling with two jobs plus moonlights. Not everyday is a good day either.
When we sit down to do our taxes every year, we NET about half our gross. There is no possible way to put more hours in.
um... If most people actually added up the cost of their wives jobs, including everything from work clothes, to gas, to day care, to the higher income tax bracket that the extra job puts them into ...
Most would realize they are working for nearly nothing, and are cheating their children and themselves of the most important moments in life.
Bumping Lorianne! Thank you. You lent that more time then I did.
Great points, on both of your posts above. I would disagree that the new way is better for men, just better for adolescent, hedonistic, physically mature adolescent males.
My wife is due in March and will have the first 6 months off before she needs to head back to work. I hate the thought of a 6 month old in day care.
Good points.
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My daughter didn't go to pre-K. She started school in Kindergarten.
She's now 10, in 5th grade and brilliant, of course (as many Freepers can attest as I've recounted her comments during the debates and conventions).
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As a divorced father whose wife divorced him to go shack up with a loser, AND who stole his son from him, AND as a man who pays child support of over $880 a month and only sees his child FOUR days a month, AND who has been fighting in court for years for custody, let me say this:
You are totally clueless, ignorant and divorced from reality. Your comments are insulting to the tens of thousands of men in my situation. YOU are part of the problem by perpetuating the ignorance and corruption of the "domestic courts". Do a little research before shooting off your mouth.
That's compared to children who sit in front of the TV, whose parents never read to them, and who haven't even learned their colors or to count before beginning kindergarten.
The children in our family all knew their colors and could count to 10 by the time they were about 2 years old, most were reading by kindergarten, and they also knew shapes, letters, etc.
If you spend time with your children, they don't need Pre-K.
Only holds true for spouses with mcjobs. $10hr and under. Doesn't hold true at all for professional couples where both make a decent wage.
People don't want to pay their own way through life -- they want everyone else to pay more and more. The name of the game is to be a bigger leacher than leachee.
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If you read to your own children, you don't need a Pre-school teacher to do it.
The young parents, both liberals, decided that the wife would quit her job and be a full time mother...
The jist of the article was that they could do it on his salary alone by watching every cent they spent. She gave up her car and drove his. He took the bus to work. She gave up all the fancy clothes that she had needed for work. etc. etc. It was a three page story of what we really don't need and how people live outside their budget just to keep up with the Jones's.
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Whatever the merits of the various arguments, this is definitely a debate this society needs to have. We have entirely too many human beings reaching adulthood in a feral state. The time to tone down the savagery is when they're young. About all you can do with adult savages is lock them up.