Category Archives: Daily Q&A

Isn't this what we already call Head Start? What a shame it did not work and that the adults in charge did not either.

You know, I don't like "universal" anything since it means just another government requirement that chips away at our freedom to choose.  Frankly, I would like to see children stay in the home a bit longer before being forced out into the world.

Universal Pre-K education  for all preschoolers might sound like a great idea but it also depends on the quality of the program.  There are more and more families home schooling their children today because the quality of public education in America has gone way down.  Universal Pre-K education can also create another opportunity for the…

From the time children are babies most parents read, sing, do all sorts of things to teach their children because they know education is important from birth.  But, we don’t need the federal government cramming a universal Pre-K program down our throats.    We already know the public school system is full of incompetent teachers who…

Not a good idea-Period! Lets leave this to the parents and the States to decide! We can't afford to take this on as a country.  Lets fix the current K-12 system which is broken!

I was once solicited by the State of Alabama to head up a universal pre-K program because, as the Governor told me to my face, that while the program was not necessary for his grandchildren or mine, it was for the children of chicken-pluckers. According to him, they do not know how or do not…

We have failed in education by throwing more and more money at education with less and less success. He just wants brain washing of more youth at younger age for socialism.

I once thought this would be good thing. Now it looks like a mandate with all the strings attached.

Proof is that by the third grade there is no discernible difference in those who went to preschool and those who don't.

Some children need more of the preschool experience if they are not being prepared for school at home.  Others go to school ready to learn.  Still others have figured out how to read by themselves.  With all the technology around today, I think socialization skills will be needed for the little ones.  If all of…