My sister has a different view on preschool than I do. I'm trying to be of help to her without being judgemental.
That said, I'm growing really tired of paying for our friends born south of the border, breaking into our country for free healthcare, schooling and the like. Americans keep footing the bill for illegals, and I for one am so fed up with it............my goodness.
As for this 4 year old wanting to be in school...I think that this is probably her one opportunity to see and play with other children her age. Again, she lives in the middle of nowhere.
And as for your opinion of 4 year olds staying home to learn from their mommies...let the illegals keep *their* kids at home. After all, who better to communicate with a SSO child than its SSO mama?
I agree with you about the illegals. However, they are here and until we get rid of them it is to OUR advantage to educate them and make sure they are disease free. Giving them a head start on English is a good way to do that.
My children went to school in the Aldine ISD. My daughter graduated from Eisenhower.
It is easy to become frustrated with the school system in general and the problem with illegals makes it worse.
When my children were down there, from the early seventies until the early eighties, the school sent notes home wanting us to sign our kids up for free lunches. We definitely didn't need it nor qualify for it and our kids begged us not to sign it. I went to school to find out what was up and eventually learned that the more kids they had in the school lunch program the more money they got from the federal government, which assumed these were poor, needy kids. They were gaming the system just for the money.
It is those kinds of things that make our education system so expensive.