The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: aligncare on April 03, 2015, 05:37:58 pm
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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.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7648/17020907295_4f49fbff87.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rW5AJT)
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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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7648/17020907295_4f49fbff87.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rW5AJT)
Does anyone see anything wrong with this?
Well for one thing, where's Dad in that picture?
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Government care is non judgmental. What's it to you whether or not there's a father around?
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Well for one thing, where's Dad in that picture?
Why would he be in school?
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....cue laugh track...
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I can see one. Taxpayer-funded.
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“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.