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To: TimF who wrote (64169)	11/2/2015 8:47:54 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

I don't even understand why you and Smith are fighting the idea that early education is fundamentally important to the intellectual development of a child? Like I said, just use common sense, a five-year-old can learn multiple languages without even trying. Do they forget those languages in later years? Of course not. You're not using common sense. Why would learning a language any different than learning anything else? But here is a November 2 article in USA Today by Greg Toppo: 20% of one-year-olds own a tablet computer. 28% of two-year-olds can navigate a mobile device with no help. One of the more amazing findings, said Matilda Irigoryen, chair of the Department of pediatric and adolescent medicine at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and one of the lead researchers on the study, was how quickly children as young as three reach independent use of such devices. That we didn't expect, she said. So while the societies of the more advanced nations make a concerted effort to get their children educated in an early age with free preschool for all children, in the United States we have people like you guys that fight doing that. To me that makes no sense at all. But if all of that doesn't convince you, just remember any parent that sends their child to kindergarten without good preschool education is going to find that child eaten for breakfast by the other five-year-olds in the class that have 2 1/2 years or more of early childhood education. And one should be able to easily see the effect that's going to have on a five-year-old. Just imagine, your five-year-old child walks into kindergarten and has to compete with all those other kids who have two or three or four years of significant early childhood development. There is no way that kid is going to compete. And what is he going to think? You don't think that kid is going to feel stupid? Of course he is, he is five, and the heartbreaking thing is, he isn't stupid, he's just starting out way behind but he's five years old and can't figure that out. Those are the hard facts: and the reason we need the government to provide support to all parents who cannot afford early childhood development for their kids. Let the parent that wants to, send them where they want, but send them somewhere that they'll an education?