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To: one_less who wrote (989722)	12/22/2016 4:05:03 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570976

That is a myth and total nonsense that the right wing has been spreading for years. Kids do not lose information gained early in life-lol. The idea that early education is lost later in life is completely nuts. You take an average kid and put them in a household where they speak five languages and they will learn all five languages easily just by listening. They don't lose the ability to speak those languages later in life. At that age they are sponge and their neural network is growing dramatically, and they must have stimulation. At 2 1/2, I could see just half days. But the child needs as much stimulation as they can get in those early years. The fact of the matter is most parents that keep their kids home full time do not aggressively educate them and then when they get to kindergarten the're so far behind the other kids they often fail. They just can't compete. People who don't want to send their kids to pre-school that's fine, but make it available for those that do. People who are too stupid to understand the importance of early childhood education, well, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. The Democrats passed free preschool for all kids in the 1970s and Nixon vetoed it. You know why you he vetoed it? The right wing Republicans as usual, did not want thoir kids being taught facts like the age of the earth is 5 billion years old when they are teaching their kids it's only 6000 years old. Texas Republicans a few years ago had an item on their platform against the teaching of higher order thinking!! Just clutch that bible that is all anyone needs, many think. <<I like what Headstart is trying to do and it does help disadvantaged kids get a boost before kindergarten. Statistics show that in the long term that boost is lost