"The Universal Pre-k advocates are out and about speaking about the Yale Center study because rather than being interested in what is best for children, they are concerned that the report will cause parents to start staying home and raising their own. God forbid. Notice that the first thing they do is ask for more money, more support services, and more training and degree programs. How we parents manage to raise 3 and 4-year olds without the "help" and intervention of preschool "experts," I will never know."
I hate to say it, but preschool is a better place for the kids who get tossed. Usually it is because of poor parenting.
The problem is that the Universal pre-K advocates are working intently on making preschool for all 4-year olds mandatory. They are not doing this "for the children." They are doing it to maintain and build the pre-K industry in order to benefit themselves. They have already passed mandatory pre-K in Florida and they did this in an under-handed manner by using a tragedy, which took the life of a 4-yr. They said that because the incident took place before 3 p.m., it wouldn't have happened if the little girl had been in school. On its face, this is true. But it would have happened if she'd been anyplace other than where she happened to be. They tied this incident into a legislation that would mandate that all 4-yr. olds who are Dept. of Family and Children cases be enrolled in pre-k. The next you know ALL 4 yr. olds, whether they are on the caseload or not, will be required to be enrolled. This is what they teachers' unions want and what they are trying to do in every state.