Posted 4:56 PM by Susan Darst Williams

JOHN STOSSEL BLASTS UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL;
WHY WOULD NEBRASKA SNARE THE SANDBOX SET
IN THAT HORRENDOUS SPENDING SWAMP?

Here's a good article by commentator John Stossel, exposing the myths behind the left-wing push to provide government preschool for each and every child at taxpayer expense.

You can sure see Nebraska slipping slowly but surely into this new entitlement, with the Susie Buffett set-up grant, and various State Board of Education votes that are edging us toward "standards" for school-based, taxpayer-provided, pre-k programs for all.

It's bad enough that they're driving private-sector preschools out of business. On top of that, the universal preschool end-product is WORSE: the low-income kids that have gone to them (Head Start) don't do any better in school, there's not a shred of evidence that the middle- and high-income kids who WOULD go to them from now on would do any better, either -- more than likely, with the loss of competition, their preschool experiences would be far worse -- AND kids from these sorts of programs have been found to become overly aggressive, anxious, less-healthy "problem children" once they get into full-fledged school.

Ew! Ew! Ewwww! Let's all join the throng calling for the aerial overspraying of Prozac onto all preschools . . . just kidding.

The point is, if enough parents, taxpayers and policy leaders wake up to what a waste of time and money these Soviet-style government nurseries would be, maybe we can hopscotch around this one:

http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/04/08/the_universal_pre-k_scam

Labels: criticism of universal taxpayer-provided preschool