Obama Proposes Universal Pre-school

[rambone]

"The size of your paycheck, though, shouldn’t determine your child’s future," he said.


Obama pushes universal preschool proposal

"Every dollar we invest in high quality early education can save more than $7 dollars later on," Obama said during a speech at a Community Recreation Center in Decatur, Ga. repeating a line first delivered during his State of the Union address Tuesday night when he unveiled the preschool proposal and other initiatives for the coming year.

 

[musicmonkey317]

I vote for parents actually raising their kids and spending time with them. The system will never fix poor parenting.

 

[Baditude]

and who do you think is going to pay for it? Certainly not the entitlement folks

 

[rambone]

This is really just an extension of a cherished American tradition that is well-loved by both parties.

 

[rhptchr14]

i agree with musicmonkey.

 

[johnny45]

Universal indoctrination is more like it....

This!

State education is less about education than it is about building compliant citizens of the state.


“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
S.L.C.

 

[johnny45]

The system will never fix poor parenting.

Dead on.... but the system will tell you otherwise... It just needs more of your property to do so.

 

[Classic]

Democrat Basic Training.

 

[Leo]

Universal indoctrination is more like it....

I agree with your opinion

 

[terrehautian]

So glad we are such great financial shape we can afford to do this.

 

[sepe]

I vote for parents actually raising their kids and spending time with them. The system will never fix poor parenting.

Say what? Something that promotes personal responsibility and that makes sense will never be accepted.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Preschool is for pussies, my kids never stepped foot in one thankfully. Guess who is performing better in High School, my kids or the ones that went to preschool because the parents didn't want their kids to fall behind

 

[indyjack]

the earlier the state can get at your children, the easier it is to turn them against you.

 

[88GT]

And where are the individuals saying that government schools are just fine now?

 

[RabbleRouser]

I'm sure I read somewhere that Hitler had state sponsored [STRIKE]indoctrination[/STRIKE] pre-schools

 

[RockofStrength]

And suddenly the Dept. of Education, the Teacher's Unions, various local government officials heard a huge "Cha-Ching!"

It's ok folks, it's what every child deserves. That means there's nothing wrong with it.

 

[SecondhandSnake]

"The size of your paycheck, though, shouldn’t determine your child’s future," he said.


Obama pushes universal preschool proposal

Even though studies have shown that the advantage of pre-school largely disappear by 3rd grade, meaning this measure is completely and totally useless.

It's about as effective as their other idea of "Let's just throw more money at the problem. That will fix it, right?"

But hey, in my best politician/Obamaspeak; "We have to have universal pre-school. It's common sense. We need to help those folks. It's the right thing for America. Think of the children. And to pay for it, folks just need to pay their fair share."

 

[thatgtrguy]

My 4 year old is a bit of an introvert. He likes to stay home and play with Mommy and Daddy. We have him in preschool just so he has a few days a week where he's interacting with a group of kids his own age.

We actually chose our home purposefully to make sure he will go to a quality public school. But I still believe education starts and ends on the home.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Since I don't have kids yet, I didn't realize it was illegal to NOT educate a kid.

As long as private/home schooling is an option, that's fine... But if those became outlawed, and public/govt school was mandatory... I will not have kids, period.

 

[RockofStrength]

Since I don't have kids yet, I didn't realize it was illegal to NOT educate a kid.

As long as private/home schooling is an option, that's fine... But if those became outlawed, and public/govt school was mandatory... I will not have kids, period.

Look up Compulsory Attendance laws sometime. Indiana is actually rather lenient when it comes to being able to pull your kid out and private/homeschool them, but many states aren't as happy to let little bags of money waltz out the door.