Suffer the Little Children (Universal Preschool Edition)

Wendy McElroy on universal preschool programs, such as the one being pushed by Rob Reiner in California:

This is the great danger: the presumption that government can raise children better than parents. If universal preschool is voluntary, then it may merely create another massive and ultra-expensive bureaucracy that accomplishes little.

If it is compulsory, then universal preschool will extend the government's usurpation of parenthood so that all 3- and 4-year-olds are under state supervision.

Whole thing here.