Our Four-Year-Olds

This juxtaposition just jumped out at me ... on facebook.

First, I saw this photo, shared by a page called Outside Existence: "This is how kids should be socializing not side by side on the couch holding gaming remotes!"

 

I scrolled down an inch or two and came across The Heritage Foundation's Morning Bell:

Why We Don’t Need Universal Preschool

.... There are already 45 government preschool programs run by numerous federal agencies, including the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, the Interior, and Housing and Urban Development. Burke and Sheffield note that these 45 programs “are estimated to cost taxpayers more than $20 billion annually. Many are duplicative and ineffective, failing to serve the needs of children from low-income families.”

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Everyone wants children to have the best start in life. Large-scale government preschool programs are not the way to ensure that happens.

 

Amen. And if I may, I'd like to add this comment by M/Obama:

“ My hope is that through children, they will begin to educate their families and that will, in turn, begin to educate our communities.”

 

Children should educate adults? As usual, the Left has it exactly bass-ackwards. 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Thanks to Carmen Field for introducing me to these four adorable urchins. Pictures like these are worth more than any number of words. The Heritage Foundation is right: We don't need more preschools; kids have plenty of time -- starting at age 5 -- to become sedated, indoctrinated, and stupidified. Let those under 5 be what these kids are: scamps, scalawags, and scapegraces. Then, if they're lucky, they may be able to withstand the numbing effects of formal education.