Early ed is just stupid. It’s a babysitting program for moms that want to get rid of their kids all day.
It will unionize a big chunk of the daycare industry.
Agreed. Another factor I observed is that in many of these Head Start classes, someone did an excellent job choosing materials to supply them. The unexpected consequence is that they are over stimulating, and (JMHO) might be turning out kids who expect too much to be handed to them.
A good program might be for parents and pre-schoolers together to come in for two-hour sessions of parent-child interactions to stimulate learning, maybe a few times a week. Beyond that, let the parents do the parenting....including feeding their own kids. The kids get free breakfast and lunch! Letting the parent drop off the kid for five or so hours and have that time on their hands is enabling bad behavior and poor parenting.
They had an article on this worrying how four year olds will countinue to be exposed to art and music. GAG