October 29, 2005

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Touting studies on the benefits of pre-schooling, San Diego moves toward universal free pre-school for 3 to 5 year olds.

Sounds good, but something is missing from this discussion. In this writer's opinion we ought to be asking ourselves, "Are we moving toward the land of Plato and Marx with cradle to grave education sponsored by the state?"

And other things too.

What is the real key to success in life? Doesn't it begin at home? Doesn't it start with a home that has standards, preferably Christian standards? Isn't it founded, by in large, with homes where parents stay married, where parents take time for their children, where parents direct their education, and finally where parents teach by precept and example?

The statistics back this reality. Strong parental support, not more state schooling is the key. And will we achieve this by increasing the tax burden on already thinly stretched parents, making it even easier for them to back away from their kids lives, due to the burden, and due to the shift in responsibility?

I don't think so.

Nor will more years of humanist education, and nosy head start teachers inspecting parents homes (astonishingly this Sovietized task is required of them) benefit anyone. If we hope to turn the tide, more years of children spending time at home with parents who love them, and parents who instruct them in the morality of Jesus Christ is the real solution.

That so many parents do no such thing, does not give the state the right to rip the rest out of the arms of their parents - but it ought to give us pause, that perhaps, just perhaps, this neglect is an indication of just how miserably our secular state has failed the rising generation. It has been key to producing in this country generations of parents who lack principle, faith, love and vision.

More of this would only make things worse. Then answer to our concerns is not found in the state, but in ourselves through Christ.

That's my opinion, and I stand by it.

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The foundation of a productive society is the family. I feel that the main attraction of "cradle to grave" education for most parents, is State subsidized day care. My wife and I made a decision to have her in the home when we began to have children. Our decision has come at great financial cost, that as far as I know, the government has never sought to create a tax break for. The person that places a child in daycare to generate income for the family is still in a economically advantageous position to the person who forgoes an income to raise their own children, yet who receives the tax breaks? As the years go by we have seen more and more pressure from two income families to have full day kindergarten and earlier and earlier pre-school. The main goal of which is to have the kids looked after by a State paid babysitter for as much of the childs time as possible. The result of this has been more socially mal-adjusted young children. Educators tell us that children should begin school (Kindergarten) ready to learn. Expectations range from knowing the alphabet to being able to write names to being able to do simple reading and more. I have heard parents talk about having kids as young as 2 attending foreign language classes. I don't argue that very young children have a great capacity to learn things that are quite astonishing when compared to historical expectations, but I believe starting schooling at such a young age deprives children of some of the most important traits that they will ever aquire and will only aquire later in life at a heavier cost if omitted at the range of two and a half to five years old. These include humility, modesty, selflessnes, honesty, self discipline, respect for authority, the ability to take instructions and complete assignments, and an awareness that they are not the center of the universe. If kids began school at 6 years old with no ability to read write calculate or any other formal education, but had the aforementioned virtues, you would see children that they would not only far surpass todays students, but would thrive in class sizes of upt 70 to 100 students. Impossible you say? Wrong! We already did it from the 1940's until the mid to late 60's. The technologies and content of the education may change, but the underlying principles and values are timeless and never do.

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