Yet Another Pre-School Program?

Townhall.com ^ | March 29, 2014 | Ed Feulner

[knarf]

Some lame-brained, Philadelphia think tank idiot ... excuse me ... I think he's a member of the chamber of commerce ... has proposed a 13th year for high school to which I replied, as a sitting school board member ...

We have at least 75% (if not more) pre-school aged children in SOME kind of day-care, preschool 'program' for at least 2 years, and you want to add ANOTHER year ?

Shouldn't reasonable people expect a functioning, intelligent citizen/voter in (already) 14 years and you want to make it 15?

What're ya' smokin', crack ?

[dfwgator]

Parents - The ONLY effective “Pre-School” Program.

[Dick Bachert]

“What good fortune for the state that people do not think!”
Adolph Hitler 1933

“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community’.”
Adolph Hitler Speech November 1933

[Dick Bachert]

Jah, und von uf zem it ist called Ze Hitler Youth!

[GraceG]

Might as well just hand over all children at birth to be raised by incompetent government workers so they drones can increase their numbers...

[Don Corleone]

Here in Tucson I saw an ad on satellite TV slickly done touting the “Great Advantages” of Common Core. It was subtexted as being paid for by the Government. They know no limits.

[DaveA37]

It would be VERY interesting to determine the effectiveness of said programs. If the programs are run by affirmative action employees, its another waste of gubmint funds.

[BfloGuy]

This despite the fact that more than three-quarters of the nation’s four-year-olds are already enrolled in some form of early education and care.

I'm sympathetic to the author's opinion, but that statistic strikes me as false.

[Elsie]

It was subtexted as being paid for by the Government.

Then you need a red marker to correct the text:

It was subtexted as being paid for by the TAXPAYERS.

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Well; that won't work to swell on yer TV' but it works REALLY good in a newspaper you've marked up and left behind in a restaurant for the next reader to peruse...

[ronnie raygun]

taxpayer baby sitting service so the young tramps can go out and get pregnant again, you dont think they’re out working do you?

[EinNYC]

And NYC's Mayor DiBlahblah is peeing himself in excitement because the governor offered to fund his precious pre-K program. But he STILL wants to sock it to the city's wealthy with new taxes-->which will drive out more of the tax base. Dumb-da-dumb-dumb.

Pre-K is just another way of saying, "Let's feed all the illegal alien and illegitimate spawn." And there are already waaay too many of both in NYC. The results of Pre-K programs is decidedly mixed, with Head-Start being a dismal failure. It also provides more time for the government to indoctrinate little minds.

[Elsie]

“Let’s feed all the illegal alien and illegitimate spawn.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowbird

[Jim Noble]

What need would this initiative fulfill that isn’t now being addressed by one of the following programs?

More high-paying jobs for Sociology, Education, and Women's Studies majors.

[EinNYC]

Yes, I suppose the illegal alien spawn pushes U.S. citizen through-and-through kids out of the nest. As a biology teacher, I am certainly aware of the ol' "let's substitute OUR young for the legitimate young of this bird and push their babies out of the nest" trick of cowbirds and cuckoos. It really irks me to see so many students fail to rise and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I guess if we had the Mexican or whatever pledge over the PA system, they'd be out of their seats in a jif. I also wince every time a students starts off a narrative with, "In MY country..." Where the hell do you think you are now, kid? This country which pays for your housing, food, education and medical care isn't YOUR country?

I see the appalling lack of resources in schools every day. Xerox paper is often so scarce that teachers have to buy their own or pay for copying outside of school. School libraries are either closed for lack of funds for a librarian or have sparse collections of patched up books. Kids in classes whose teachers were the slightest bit tardy in submitting their requests for textbooks often get the 10 year old dog-eared textbooks left in some dusty corner of a bookroom. Way too many lab activities are "paper labs" instead of a chance to manipulate lab equipment and experience phenomena that physically happen in the lab (like a change in color or something that fizzes). But...nowadays, most classrooms have SmartBoards and/or laptops for the kids. The former things I mentioned are so much more important than these last things, yet are now stretched to the limit.

While there are many worthy online activities for students which would justify the laptops, I also constantly see kids opening multiple windows on the computers during class. They are filling their MP3 devices from the laptops, looking at movies, watching clips of sports events, and admiring pages of high-dollar sneakers (?!) when they are supposed to be answering questions on various academic websites. Your tax dollars at work.

[Elsie]

It really irks me to see so many students fail to rise and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Why isn't it a REQUIREMENT?

[Elsie]

...a REQUIREMENT?

Are there THAT many JW's in your classes??

[Elsie]

The former things I mentioned are so much more important than these last things, yet are now stretched to the limit.

The folks who are making the decisions to BUY the new toys are the same ones who did NOT enjoy using the old equipment!

[Elsie]

They are filling their MP3 devices from the laptops, looking at movies, watching clips of sports events, and admiring pages of high-dollar sneakers (?!)

Why are these URL's not blocked out?

Surely there exists a program that could suck out ALL the websites visited in a day, chug thru them at night, and the next morning present a list of those to a HUMAN who could then put the bad ones on a permanent lockout list.

[Elsie]

I also wince every time a students starts off a narrative with, "In MY country..."

Quit wincing and Take Control!

Remind them, gently, that THIS is the country you are now living in; enjoying the fruits of the land.