Here we go. Many people, including the governor, say we need all-day kindergarten for all Indiana children. Now, this Indiana University report says we need a statewide program of pre-kindergarten:
A prekindergarten program educates preschool-aged children (typically 3- and 4-year-olds) with the explicit goal of improving school readiness. In 2004, 38 states offered publicly-funded prekindergarten programs, in part to address the same challenges that Indiana faces. Indiana is one of a handful of states that does not offer any funding for prekindergarten.
Where does this end? Maybe we need an ante-prekindergarten program so the government can make sure the kids are potty trained the right way. I've read some of the research on early childhood learning, and it makes sense; most of our ability to learn is pretty much set by the time we get to school. But public substitutes for parental obligations are a knee-jerk reaction not likely to be effective in the long run.
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Where does this end? With the complete warehousing of kids, in the hands of the state. It's becoming far more apparent.
if they want to have it let the parents pay for it. I am sick and tired of paying for the education for children of other people. I don't have any kids. Enough already! I don't mind helping support the schools with tax dollars but it's free lunch, books, sports, renovations, fancy pools etc. They can't even teach them the basics. If these parents had a brain they could prepare their kids by the time they got to kindergarten. Make the parents accountable for a change!!
It seems Gov. Daniels was infected with the same "Let's out-spend the Democrats on guns *and* on butter" virus with which the White House and Congress were infected.
Foolish me, I once thought Repubs actually meant what they said about reducing both taxes *and* spending.