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.
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Exactly!
One of the bases for a society-provided education was that by having it provided by the government, there were economies of scale. They could do it more efficiently (cheaper), more effectively, etc. That by having standardized curriculums, standardized training, large employee groups (higher salaries, benefits, etc), effeciences of capital (buildings, etc), that the government could do it better than if each parent was responsible on his/her own. IOW, instead of millions of parents having to be trained in language, math, science, etc ... the govt can pay teachers to do it. And the parents pay the government (taxes). So, by the govt doing it, it was better for society.
Ha! like that worked ... lol
"Perhaps because children have a developmental need for education."
No they don't. Children do NOT have a developmental need for education. They will develop just fine without it. Just as they did for the millenia prior to education becoming a social norm. However, they will have extreme difficulty finding a job and navigating their way through a society that assumes a certain base level of literacy and numeracy. Lacking these things does not stunt their development- since developmental needs were encoded in our DNA long before such a thing as literate societies were created.
The purpose of public education is not to meet a developmental need of children to be educated because there is no such thing. The purpose of public education is to ensure that society is made up of people with at least a certain level of knowledge and skills. Our society couldn't function if the majority of the population didn't have this education and so we as a society have agreed to pay for it with taxes.
We as a society have not agreed to pay for childcare that goes beyond the educational needs we've agreed to. So we don't. These aftercare programs that you are railing against are paid for by the PARENTS! Did you know that? They aren't free, as public education is. The schools merely host them because they have the facilities. It seems that you have been making your last 500 anti-aftercare posts with the assumption that taxes (and therefore society) are what pay for aftercare. This is wrong. Aftercare is paid for by parents. It is held at the school as a matter of convenience but not one penny of its cost is passed on to the taxpaying public.
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PumpkinAngel
Great post!
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IMO, it can be if you as a parent make the conscious effort to find a lesson in what others find a seemingly mundane task and can manage to hold the
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