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There is usually someone advocating that we expand taxpayer funding “early education” programs, along with some dubious reference to studies that show this will somehow benefit the child.

Can we please keep in mind, this is promoting expansion of the same government-funded programs that have been failing our children miserably for decades?

Does anyone really believe that kids are not graduating high school and a large percentage of graduates are functionally illiterate because they did not attend school when they were 3 and 4 years of age? Could they not learn to read and write during the next 12 years of government schooling?

The research shows that the benefits of Head Start programs are non-existent after the first few years of school There is no evidence these children perform better than they otherwise would have later in their academic careers.

The expansion of these programs fulfills two main objectives that have nothing to do with education: They allow both parents to work full time and not have to pay for daycare, a situation becoming ever more necessary as the government confiscates more of our income through taxation and inflationary monetary policy. And they allow the teachers unions with their ideological agenda to begin influencing the thinking of children at younger ages, exactly what is needed in a submissive society that will accept whatever misguided and destructive policies government throws its way.

Lois

Blair Township, PA

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