Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
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Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
| Sun, 03-19-2006 - 3:09pm |
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051101/news_1n1earlyed.html
Very interesting. Particularly the difference in the middle to upper income kids vs low income.
"I personally feel children need the nurture of their parents and the home," she said. "Those early years, that's when they are bonding to their family. That nurturing, only the family can give that."
I tend to agree.
MM, WOHM to B&E, 7.24.03

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But the opportunities and school choices come at a cost to the parents, in addition to the cost they are paying to the public school.
PumpkinAngel
You have worked with gifted students for 26 years?
PumpkinAngel
Privilege would mean that it was handed to me.
PumpkinAngel
No.
PumpkinAngel
Definitely, the costs can add up, unless your name is hk and you can do it at home for free. I'm sure even her "homeschooling" supplies add up considerably.
The school failure requirement for IEP eligibility is a scandal; IEP's themselves are nothing more than an accounting tool. If the fed would step up and fund both special education and regular education, there wouldn't have to be such a distinction made between them. If resources weren't so scarce, there'd be less need to count the cost.
It's true that public schools have few staff with any sort of background in giftedness, but then there are far fewer gifted. The whole thrust of public education has always been toward the middle, and it's only in recent decades that a serious effort has even been made to bring in atypical learners. In fact, until a few decades ago, graduation rates were far lower than they are today because HS was seen as a winnowing out process and not so much as a basic prerequisite. Did you know that before WWI only about 15% of all American adults had so much as a HS education?
Nothing serious will happen to close the achievement gap, to upgrade special education, to do something for GT kids, until the fed decides to make it a priority. In the 60's it took Sputnik to start doing something solid about math and science education in HS and to support technology in higher education. The electorate just doesn't seem to give a hang about educational issues today.
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