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Early childhood education featured in Minnesota budget plan
February 20, 2013 at 2:38 am in DL-Online
Adding money to early childhood education and all-day kindergarten programs, as Gov. Mark Dayton suggests, is important to Minnesota’s future, the state House education finance leader says. Continue Reading
We are now into the second generation of daycare kids. Parents dumped them off as infants and expected K-12 to continue the babysitting process. Expected others to feed, clothe, and educate them; no participation on their part. No amount of money will cure that.
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The earlier the kids can be indoctrinated into collectivism, the better it is for the utopians.
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On February 23, 2013 Tom Dennis provided a critique of the Obama Administration’s proposal to expand early childhood education. I think that most people who read the Grand Forks Herald would agree that Mr. Dennis could reasonably be described as “left-leaning”. He noted that the Obama administration’s own studies show that by third grade there were very few positive impacts that could be measured from participation in the already existing Head Start program and that the only studies supporting the premise that early childhood programs were a benefit were studies of small expensive programs (one cost $90,000 per child). There is apparently little or no support for the proposition that a universal program would have positive results. As Gene notes, this is simply an extension of government provided daycare. While I am not in favor of this program, if it is going to be implemented let’s be honest and just provide daycare rather than disguising it in the much more expensive cloak of “early childhood education.”
Whether a child performs poorly or performs well in school is not dependent upon their access to early childhood education. School performance is significantly influenced by parental involvement and participation. Every year school administrators and teachers respond to criticism about poor school performance by asserting that schools shouldn’t have to assume the role of parents by being the primary providers of discipline, basic necessities and moral guidance (I tend to agree). But, if that is the case, having the government assume an even greater role is not the solution.
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