[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[ladyjane]

a large majority of mothers indicate that they prefer to stay home when their children

If you can't afford to do that then don't keep having kids. Or have them with a man who will support you. It's not my job to support you and educate your kids.