Here in CA there is a movement to make pre-school mandatory. The erroneous assumption is that the earlier the children get started, the better. It hasn’t dawned on them that they aren’t and haven’t been able to teach those 5 years and up; what makes any one think that getting children at three years and four years is going to be any better? Need any of us point out that some are not even house-broken by three or four years? It is an obvious ploy to generate yet more revenue for the Dept of Education and expand their industry.
Almost 50% of our entire state budget goes to schools. Approximately $12,000 per child per school year. An oversized classroom of 30 students will generate approx $360,000 in just about 186 days. What a scam! How many children in your school? Where does it go? For this we get at 40 – 50 percent drop-out rate, sex with the teacher, and or socially stunted children. Imagine the riot if the Dept of Transportation (Cal Trans) took in about 50% of the state budget and 40% of the bridges and roads failed!
In CA teachers “teach” about 186 days a year and earn as much as most full time employees in CA. That’s a part time job anywhere in America, yet they want full time salaries and benefits. When teachers strike pay close attention to what they are striking about; it ain’t the kids.
One of the many things I can’t seem to get my head around is the idea that in America we live in a materialist capitalist society yet our youth can’t explain simple, let alone compound interest. Don’t even ask them to compute the interest rate. They can’t balance a check book, don’t understand that 18 – 24% interest on a charge card should be illegal, or count the correct change back to you at the fast food joint.
Instead the Dept of Education seems to think we want our children to learn how to put condoms on bananas. We have day cares set up on our high school campuses to take care of those that failed putting the condom on the banana.
I should mention that we have homeschooled our three children since our 13 year old was two or three years old. Our first child could read, write, add and subtract, knew colors, shapes etc before she was four and a half. We tried to enroll her in a charter homeschool. We were told she was too young for kindergarten. Our children have taken state and federal tests to ensure they are able to keep up with the public schoolers. Mine tested out in the top 1%, but the local teachers’ union representative told me that when mine were ready for school to bring them over.
That will never happen.
