Making Children "Wards of the State"

Arkansas Publik Skulz ^ | 30 May 2003 | Margaret Brogley

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MAKING CHILDREN WARDS OF THE STATE
Date: Friday, May 30 @ 06:09:27
Topic Letters to Editor

THREE- AND FOUR-YEAR OLD KINDERGARTEN: MAKING CHILDREN WARDS OF THE STATE
Margaret Brogley
5/30/03

Dear Editor:

Has your state or community begun promoting the enrollment of three- and four-year-old children? The Van Buren/Fort Smith area has -- big time. Our daily newspaper, the Southwest Times Record, 5/19/03, had a huge article about it and was so convincing that I wanted to rush right down to enroll the three- and four-year-olds that I don¹t have for fear I would miss a good thing!

The title of the propaganda was: "Pre-kindergartens Help Prepare Children for Success" and subtitled "Many States Showing Interest in Funding Programs." It states that scientists, advocates for children, and policy makers are arguing for more classrooms that develop three- and four-year-old preschool mentally, emotionally, and socially. They argue on the basis of recent brain research studies. It also says forty states offer some of state supported pre-kindergarten, often for low-income families and that all states mandate services for those children with disabilities.

The proponents say that no state offers universal preschool for three-year-olds but the idea has received a lot of attention even when the budget is tight. A report from the Committee for Economic Development in New York says part-day, part-school year preschool costs $4,000-$5,000 per child per year.

Every four-year-old has been eligible in Georgia since 1995 for free, voluntary pre-kindergarten. The program began in 1992 as a limited program. In 1995 the Governor pushed legislation to include all four-year-olds.

The Pew Charitable Trust and the Trust for Early Childhood Education established the National Institute for Early Education Research as part of an effort to encourage the program.

MY COMMENTS ON THE ABOVE:
What you have just read is nothing but a continuation to make the child a ward of the state. The idea is not new by any means: just kept secret from most people. In 1931 my American History teacher told the class that there was such a plan afoot. I thought he was jesting, but I have lived long enough to see it happening. My teacher at that time was a recent graduate from Columbia University¹s Teachers College where John Dewey was teaching; therefore, I assume that he heard it from the horse's mouth.

Note that the parents are not pushing this idea, but the questionable Pew Charitable Trust is, along with the Trust for Early Childhood Education. The sooner the child is separated from the parents the easier it will be to turn him over to the state.

Since the Georgia Education Department was so successful with its pilot program, a conference for Early Childhood Education was held in Atlanta. I attended. The U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley was guest speaker as well as four from other countries. The thrust of the entire conference was to enroll the child from birth. We were even shown a video of a nine-month-old baby reading. However, it was obvious that the baby was Pavlovian trained. Don¹t be surprised if you are shown a similar video in the future.

We learn from New York that the cost is $4,000-$5.000 per year per child. The promoters want the program to be free for the parents, but it won¹t be free for taxpayers who will have to dig further into their pocketbooks at a time when all states are struggling with their budgets. This is idiocy!

Question: How could our Forefathers become so successful when there were no preschools for them to attend? Yet they gave us the most wonderful document devised by man!

The educrats admit the school system is a failure. As a result, they are continuing to reform it to fool us. Instead of getting to the root of the problem, which is progressive education, they plan to add the preschoolers to the problem and to churn out more socialists.

Stay tuned: more to come.

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WHO is PEW? Here is a picture of those directly connected with the "Pew Charitable Trust"

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06/14235?_PEW_CHARITABLE_TRUSTS

Tom Wathen is at the center of this web. ( hint: look up the names on GOOGLE )

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Here's the picture that is supposed to be on the previous link (just in case -restricted site)

[A. Pole]

What you have just read is nothing but a continuation to make the child a ward of the state.

Bump

[don-o]

That is an awsome site.

I salute your talent. Bookmarked.

But, I guess I need to break down and buy the bigger monitor that my failing eyesight now requires.

[ladylib]

Russia also had a system where the mothers worked, or stood on line for hours for some rotten cabbage, and the kids were swept up and put into indoctrination centers for most of the day.

I realize that the Prussian model was used to introduce public schools to this country.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

A major YEEESH bump.

[Leisler]

[Don Corleone]

The Japanese also proved that this EARLY schooling was detrimental to the kids mental health. They were becoming wackos since they were deprived of a normal babyhood and thrust into competetive "learning" situations well before they were able to adapt to it. In short...they needed mommy and daddy not some goofball "Educator"

[A. Pole]

The Japanese also proved that this EARLY schooling was detrimental to the kids mental health.

This what slowly dawned on Soviets. Interesting difference between Bolsheviks and Western statists is that the first started with the rapid implementation of utopian ideas and then withdrew step by step over the decades. Western "engineers of human souls" try the opposite tactic - they "remake" human nature slowly like proverbial frog in heated water.

Of course they will fail as well, but their fall might be more disastrous.

[Walnut]

I know what you mean. Am I wrong , I thought being a child is the best time of your life. You can do all the "kid" stuff and have no worries for a couple of years. My grandson is so smart, funny, easy going, loving. ect I could go on all night. I'm dreading the day he "has" to start school. never mind getting him ready that early. Its going to ruin him as it is. Hes soo sweet. Now I want him to stay that way. I can't say it enough.

[Walnut]

sounds like communizm to me.

[Aric2000]

I do, and they are PO'd BIG time!!

I do my best to stay out of the crosshairs of any school district.

Come do your homeschooling at our district, we have homeschooling programs, right, uh, no thanks, I don't think so.

They want your childs name on a list, DON'T DO IT!!

THey may be nice and sweet now, but that Jekyl will come out someday, and if your childs name is on that list.

Forget about it.

Remember, you're NOT paranoid if they are ACTUALLY out to get you.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Yep, there's nothing sweeter than a little boy, so wide-eyed and earnest. It passes too quickly, doesn't it?

But that's how God intends it to be. Enjoy all of it.

[jimtorr]

Oh, how I wish I could find a reference. I read it fifteen or twenty years ago, though, and haven't a clue where. It could have been in Readers Digest, I suppose. I wonder if they have on-line archives going back that far?

[ladylib]

I feel sorry for today's kids. They are under a lot of pressure in the public schools, what with high-stakes testing and hours of "homework." The schools suck the life out of them.

[Walnut]

No there is nothing sweeter than a little boy except perhaps a little girl. (equal in sweetness not sweeter). Yes the time passes much to quickly. I enjoy them sooo much. they are the light of my life.

[Walnut]

I do too. my grandson (l6 at the time was doing bad in school. (its no wonder with what they offer today.) my daughter took him out of school and home schooled him. his first year of home schooling put him way ahead of his class . what a difference.