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Offline aligncare

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Universal Pre-K FOR ALL
« on: April 03, 2015, 05:37:58 pm »
Universal Pre-K FOR ALL

I discovered this colorful government banner hanging in the children's section of a 75-acre wooded park of athletic fields and maintained hiking trails located in a neighborhood on the upscale, southwestern shore of Staten Island--NYC's forgotten borough.



Parents using this park have money. And means. So, in an assumed free-market economy, why would free, government-provided, universal pre-k be offered where parents can ostensibly afford their own pre-K child care?

Fifteen-months ago, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio made the customary campaign promise about fixing failing schools and his magic bullet proposal happened to be universal pre-K.

Well, here we are. At another government giveaway. No means testing--just taxpayer-provided, universal, early-developmental-stage, indoctrination.

Does anyone see anything wrong with this?

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Re: Universal Pre-K FOR ALL
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2015, 05:42:00 pm »


Does anyone see anything wrong with this?

Well for one thing, where's Dad in that picture?
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Re: Universal Pre-K FOR ALL
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2015, 05:45:53 pm »
Government care is non judgmental. What's it to you whether or not there's a father around?

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Re: Universal Pre-K FOR ALL
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2015, 05:47:22 pm »

Well for one thing, where's Dad in that picture?

Why would he be in school?
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Re: Universal Pre-K FOR ALL
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2015, 05:50:40 pm »
....cue laugh track...

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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2015, 05:53:57 pm »
I can see one. Taxpayer-funded.

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Re: Universal Pre-K FOR ALL
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2015, 06:57:22 pm »
“High quality” and city public education are two concepts that don't usually go together.

It's all a scheme to get kids into the public education system earlier and earlier, and (through basically requiring college degrees for almost any decent paying job) keeping them there later and later.
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