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To: TimF who wrote (780306)	4/17/2014 10:13:40 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583489

Why are you always fighting against the scientific evidence. Your following post is very strange logic. <<This period, 1 to 5 is when the neural networking is being designed. Maybe (although a lot happens before and after that). And you posted evidence that talking to babies is important, and that its not a good idea to always use babytalk. None of that is about preschool.>> The sentence above blows me away. The necessary talk is what the study said was needed to teach the kid to think in "context.. Pre school will supplement the lack of contextual stimulus the child is not getting at home. Language is one way you get contextual understanding, but direct teaching will do it as well. The teachers in pre school will not only be talking to them, but teaching them context directly. And the idea when person learns something at 2.5 year to 5 won't stick with the child is so silly an idea I cannot even address it. You find one flawed study and beat it to death. And the idea a kid can go to kindergarten without pre school and compete with a kid who has been in school for 2.5 years is absurd. It sounds like you are making up stuff so you don't have to pay taxes to give free pre school to kids. It is this type of denial that is making the Republican party laughable. Most Pubs don't believe in evolution, don't believe in global warming and it seems don't believe in the advantages of pre school. And you guys have so many other crazy ideas like helping the poor makes them weak. <<I have the science I just posted. And it makes perfect sense. <<Maybe it makes sense but it doesn't address the point that there seems to be no solid evidence that preschool produces better long term results, with those that attend showing higher cognitive ability or success 5, 10, or 15 years later. If your really all about science you would recognize that while the benefit is not disproven, its far from proven, and in fact that the current evidence (which as always in science is subject to later revision) suggest that long term measurable benefit is at best minor.>> It is fucking common sense for Christ's sake! But there is tons of evidence. It is a truism in fact that pre school gives kids that get it a great advantage later on in life. But the problem is that conflicts with your political and personal views so you just pretend that the scientific evidence supports you.

To: TimF who wrote (780306)	4/17/2014 10:13:59 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1583489

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