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To: one_less who wrote (780144)

4/16/2014 1:19:26 PM

From: koan

Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577593

There is a great irony in your statement that I have the cart before the horse, when I feel you have the cart before the horse. So let's look at the logic.

I have said endless times that we start with free pre school at 2.5 years, with hot meals, for every child in the country.

A 2.5 year old child is the horse we want and need to change. At 2.5 years they are wide open to learning NEW and more stuff tan they would have otherwise in the ghetto that will help them all their lives.

What happens when you put that child in pre school. They start to learn and they love it. By the time that child hits what would be a normal kindergarten today, they will be light years ahead of those kids who didn't go to pre school. And they will be able to compete with the other "kids who had pre school" on a level playing field.

Remember that recent study from Stanford university that showed poor kids to be 2 years behind rich kids intellectually by the time they reach 5. Because not enough sophisticated conversation takes place in the home. And they confirmed this with brain scans. Well in pre school they get that needed conversation which is really just about learning how to attack abstract concepts.

Well, with free pre school that disadvantage disappears. Now that poor 5 year old will be able to continue school with the same educational and intellectual tools that the parents of rich kids and academic's kids get. Which will carry on through all their school years and when they grow up they will make better decisions because they will know more.

And they will embrace kindergarten and regular school because they will not feel inferior and they will know what is going on. When kids enter kindergarten after spending 2.5 years in pre school they are eager to get into it because learning is not a mystery to them and they have the confidence necessary to do the tasks at hand. After all it is just an extension of what they have been doing for the last 2.5 years.

Then comes the cart.

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I appreciate your advocacy for education but you have the cart before the horse here. In order for people to benefit from free and public education at an optimal level they need to be ready, willing, and able to take on the challenge. They need to have the resources, support, and bandwidth to dedicate themselves to the task. The population we are discussing (multi-generational single women) have been robbed of all that... but they are free and single as you keep reminding me. That is what the extreme left wanted, likes, and has produced. They (you) simply ignore the consequences you don't like to accept.