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To: JohnM who wrote (235237)	10/19/2013 2:53:36 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542371

We can fund pre school. We must fund pre school. The rich kids and academics make sure their kids go to pre school. Nixon vetoed it saying he did not want the teaching to contradict what the parents were teaching them e.g. religion (earth is more than 6,000 years old stuff). Kids who do not get that head start get slaughtered when they enter kindergarten they are so far behind. And it destroys their confidence as they think they are stupid, when all they are is behind academically. And school often becomes a negative experience which they avoid instead of embracing. To the kids who are thriving, school is a positive experience. In my family we all pitched in to afford it for the grand kids. Not sending the grand kids was not even considered. And the teachers will help the kids who are out front the most . As I am sure you know there are a zillion studies that show that. So the rich kids and academic's kids get a huge head start, go on to college almost always and become the aristocracy and bourgeois and the poor kids, or non academic kids become the proletariat; and we all know the proletariat too often these days lives on the edge of poverty, doing the bidding of the other two classes. Income inequality on steroids.