Now kids have to go to Pre-K and the Kindergarten, before they can get in the grades, These extrra two years arent doing them any good at all obviously, since we never had them and we learned to read and write. But what the heck it gives the parents two extra years to unload them into a failing school system,instead of raising them at home or more likely at a baby sitters.
There is an ad on TV for some prescription drug for rheumatoid arthritis.......and one of th scenes always strikes me the wrong way. It is an middle aged woman who says something along the lines of "I don't want to be know for great literature, I just want to teach my 3rd graders to read"
My daughter was able to read and write before kindergarten, as was I. what is this teaching 3rd graders to read? If they can't read what are they doing in 3rd grade?
In NM the legislature just passed a bill for 3-4 year olds to go to school. It's sad.
A simple solution, costing nothing, change the curriculiam to The 1940"s. Eliminate garbage. Enforce disapline or go to reform schools. Also get the unions out.