Government-Funded Preschool Is a Failure that Obama Wants to Spread Nationwide
Oklahoma and Georgia are held as models but show few results
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Raising fourth-grade NAEP reading scores: Oklahoma, Fail; Georgia, C.
Closing the minority achievement gap: Oklahoma, Fail; Georgia, C.
That Obama wants to foist these programs on the rest of the country says something about the reading and math proficiency of his administration.
This column
originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
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There was govt.-funded preschool in Communist (well, Socialist) Hungary. The country was still on the top of the list in alcoholism & suicides.
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When we discuss education, two things that must never be mentioned are dollar amounts and results.
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Obama doesn't care about costs or outcomes. He's after two things:
(1) More unionized government employees.
(2) Conditioning the next generations to control by unionized government employees.
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Now, who ever goes and knows all that crazy stuff!
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What they forgot to measure is how everyone feels about the situation. Surely we can waste lots of money on worthless programs as long as it makes us feel better to do so.
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President Obama is basing the proposed preschool programs upon Prop 10 - the California First 5 program.
Maybe preschool could be a decent idea, but for pete's sake, do not base any such federal law on the completely dysfunctional First 5's - 20 forced resignations and over $300 million recently admittedly directed to be spent illegally is tax dollar malfeasance. There's a lot wrong with the structure of that law - let's not make the same mistake twice.
Check out the First 5 watchdog site at www.flopped5.org