From losers, the four-year-olds of America. Here they are jumping around, laughing, screaming, having a great time and Obama wants them all to go to school. Every single one, right away. And why? To prepare them for the high-tech economy of the future. Can’t wait until the age of five – no siree.
We can’t let the Chinese four-year-olds be working on solar panels and cars that run on algae while our four-year-olds are lollying around doing nothing. We’re number one, we got to stay that way. The four-year-olds of America better shape up!
Have a good day kids.
Video at The Right Scoop
BUT why does Obama claim ”We Know This?”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/14/high-quality-early-education-all-children
According to the White House Blog:
These are the same ”leading economists who have been surprised over and over again by the slowness of our national recovery after the 2008-June 2009 recession.
What do EDUCATION EXPERTS say about expanding Head Start into a universal program for all 4 year olds?
In other words, Head Start is just a massive babysitting service that gives welfare moms a chance to relax and watch some cable TV.
Obama wants MORE taxpayer/borrowed money per child so as to have ”higher quality” Head Start.
See.
Liberals, like Obama, never see a gov’t program as a problem……only underfunding for it is the problem.
Exactly what would “leading economists” know about child education?
North Carolina conducted a controlled experiment called the Carolina Abecedarian Project beginning in 1972, in an effort to determine what benefits early education might provide to children from economically and socially disadvantaged backgrounds. Followups were done into the participants’ adult years, in an effort to measure possible long-term effects.
Benefits of Early Education Persist at Age 30
I don’t think there’s any doubt that educational enrichment during a child’s preschool years has a tremendous impact on subsequent performance in school, on a person’s lifetime attitude toward learning, and on what a person ultimately achieves in life. That can certainly best be provided by intelligent, involved parents in a child’s home environment—assuming that a child has intelligent, involved parents. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. There are many adults who seem to have stopped learning at—or sometime before—they left school.
I agree that if Head Start is not producing results, a different approach is needed. I don’t accept this as evidence that no effort should made at all.
Greg and Obama clearly believe in social engineering through Outcome Based Education. They are not alone:
Professor Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard:
Brock Chislholm, 1959 Humanist of the Year and former head of World Health Organization, in the February 1946 issue of Psychiatry:
Former Senator Paul Hoagland of Nebraska:
Adolf Hitler: