We can´t graduate kids who can read and do math now.
Work on that before we start a preschool program, which is nothing more than free daycare and more union jobs for preschool attendants--all with money we don´t have.

This is beyond stupid. Colossally stupid.

Preschool serves no purpose. This is simply taxpayer funded daycare.

Government schools aren’t turning kids into politically correct, sexually obsessed, lock-step marching communists fast enough to suit Obama.

Their three meals a day, take home meals, week-end meals, in-school day-care for babies of 12 year old students, and after-school student day-care aren´t creating total government dependancy quite fast enough.
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Mega dittos, #3!

Headstart has been a sort of proving ground for pre-kindergarten, government run, ´education,´ and is a BIG Government education policy´s agenda. Pres. 0bama now tauts such early education as beneficial for the future of all America´s children, but what do the stats regarding putting such young children into pre-school really show and what has been the actural result regarding children whose, ´education,´ begins at such a young age when placed with many other children & regimented in that micro-managed atmosphere. Their carefree childhood, time with family and freedom to explore as past generations have always done is gone as BIG Government eagerly assumes the role of parents. There is now over a generation of Headstart graduates who can be examined for any positive or negative results of such early schooling on their lives as adults. So far the studies & stats don´t generally look good.

So the question which must first be answered before adding yet another layer to the Federal beuracracy is, are such children so, ´educated,´ in a pre-school atmosphere DEMONSTRABLY better able to face the world in their personal pursuit of happiness later on when they graduate than we were?

No program can make a silk purse from a sow´s ear. There are large numbers of students who will never be fit for anything but manual labor or the simplest of work - but technology and the global economy have eliminated the possibility of such jobs for the great majority. It is self-deluding nonsense to pretend that this segment of the population is going to be transformed by government-educational alchemy into candidates for complex, high tech or professional jobs. This is a serious problem that will not be solved by such make-believe, make work enterprises.

It was a big wet kiss to the teacher´s union. It will also free up the welfare mother´s to seek another sleep over to keep the gravy train moving along.

#2, agree, but would add one word: "Preschool serves no good purpose."

It does serve an evil purpose. That purpose is for the Nanny State to separate children from their parents, even more than they are already.

All the better to indoctrinate children into becoming permanent future Democrat voters ... and good tattlers to Big Brother on their parents´ politically incorrect views or behavior. E.g., owning guns.

It´s not about the little toddlers of course (I will not use the term preschool these are babies).,. it is about redistributing your wealth to pay for unqualified "teachers" to babysit your kid. That´s if you´re lucky, unlucky ones have their kids abused or at best ignored. Babies want their parents not to be one of 30 other kids with runny noses and hitting each other. But like everything, follow the money.

Accomplishes absolutely nothing while life is a disaster at home. Nobody will address the desperate failings of the black culture for fear or being called a racist, this means nothing will be solved. Schools are not the root of the problem, nor are they the solution.

I am the mom of one of those four year olds Obama wants to "provide" for. My child is happy, inquisitive and perfectly fine staying home with the his siblings and mom. Hey Obama, get out of my family room.

Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm.

It´s a bad idea to turn a four year old over to a government school.

Indoctrination starting at about age 2 - very alarming. Children need time to ´be children´ - non-structured playing, running around, having fun in a playground. This is not the first time I´m glad to be part of the ´older generation´, but it´s sad thinking of what grandchildren and great-grands may have ahead of them.

An old truism teaches there are always two reasons: the reason they give you, and the real reason.

We know all follow-on studies show the so-called "benefits" disappear in a few years.

So, the likely real reasons? a. More teachers´ union members; b. more union campaign contributions for Dems [actually nothing more than a small fraction of the tax money spent being skimmed, laundered, and returned to the pols who want this craziness]; c. more and earlier programming of the captive kiddies; d. an ever-bigger piece of the economy in the hands of gov´t; and so on in that vein.

Have a nice day.

I don´t understand why everyone is complaining about this great new program. It´s free and won´t add one single dime to the deficit! /s

To any Ldotter over 60, did YOU attend pre-school?
I sure didn´t. My mother made sure I could read and write and I started kindergarten just before my 5th birthday. Until then, I was in the care of family.

Check YouTube for James Clavell´s ´The Children´s Story´. You will get chills.

Might as well be sending the tiny ones to a Communist gulag (educationally speaking) as to hand them over to federal government daycare. Or to quite a few states, for that matter.

That this is even being "suggested" is frightening.

Because that´s exactly why these Statists want this. Their purely evil designs on America´s tinest.