How would that work, then, Leanna? Many would simply refuse to work, and then what do you do? We've spent decades tearing down civilization in America. Rebuilding it will take a lot of time, and has to come before we can even consider forcing people to do anything.
Head Start has seen some success, but only in the sense that in an educati…
How would that work, then, Leanna? Many would simply refuse to work, and then what do you do? We've spent decades tearing down civilization in America. Rebuilding it will take a lot of time, and has to come before we can even consider forcing people to do anything.
Head Start has seen some success, but only in the sense that in an education world that is failing so miserably that even the most die-hard teacher's union leader *should* (but doesn't) take pause, a year of Head Start is better than a year of nothing. When some urban areas are reporting 2% or less of high school students achieving basic competency in reading and math, Head Start is like waving one hands and expecting to stop a hurricane.
What we need, instead, is a massive reduction in the size and scope of government. Let private industry employ people voluntarily - economic success provides far more opportunity than the government blob.
Head start has been around since before the Clinton administration. It’s one of the success stories. Please read more about it. Head start also educates parents. So it’s a more holistic approach. Head start success measurements show that over the long term, into high school, these kids do better.
Please read more about the complete failure of public education in many of our most impoverished areas. I'm not against Head Start, but the long-term studies on it are less relevant today because the whole system is in ruins.
I’ll be sure to let my daughter know that all her effort as a director at head start and the visible impact she observes just isn’t so. All that data they collect and report every year, just a waste. Investment in new and safer playground equipment a waste.
What would help head start enormously is the ability to hire teachers at something better than daycare wages…minimum wage.
Why do we persist at all these failed, wasteful things. Let’s just quit and let ‘somebody’ figure out something we could all feel good about spending tax dollars on.
Ummm.... public school teachers are not paid minimum wage. They do very, very well, including benefits. And if they have seniority under the irresponsible teacher-union-backed scale, they are quite wealthy and by then they don't need to work at all over the summer break.
My suggestion is privatization and a voucher system. Competition forces schools to focus on better outcomes for the students. Wealthy parents have options. Poor parents do not.
Please read about the failures in public education. As I keep saying, it's not that Head Start doesn't help - you seem determined to misread that - it's that with relatively recent changes in public education, exacerbated by the ill-advised COVID shutdown of the public school system (teacher's unions "won" at the expense of everyone there), things are so bad that even good policies like starting school a year earlier are leading to a shocking lack of even basic literacy in our most vulnerable populations.
How would that work, then, Leanna? Many would simply refuse to work, and then what do you do? We've spent decades tearing down civilization in America. Rebuilding it will take a lot of time, and has to come before we can even consider forcing people to do anything.
Head Start has seen some success, but only in the sense that in an education world that is failing so miserably that even the most die-hard teacher's union leader *should* (but doesn't) take pause, a year of Head Start is better than a year of nothing. When some urban areas are reporting 2% or less of high school students achieving basic competency in reading and math, Head Start is like waving one hands and expecting to stop a hurricane.
What we need, instead, is a massive reduction in the size and scope of government. Let private industry employ people voluntarily - economic success provides far more opportunity than the government blob.
Head start has been around since before the Clinton administration. It’s one of the success stories. Please read more about it. Head start also educates parents. So it’s a more holistic approach. Head start success measurements show that over the long term, into high school, these kids do better.
Please read more about the complete failure of public education in many of our most impoverished areas. I'm not against Head Start, but the long-term studies on it are less relevant today because the whole system is in ruins.
I’ll be sure to let my daughter know that all her effort as a director at head start and the visible impact she observes just isn’t so. All that data they collect and report every year, just a waste. Investment in new and safer playground equipment a waste.
What would help head start enormously is the ability to hire teachers at something better than daycare wages…minimum wage.
Why do we persist at all these failed, wasteful things. Let’s just quit and let ‘somebody’ figure out something we could all feel good about spending tax dollars on.
Anybody here got a suggestion?
Ummm.... public school teachers are not paid minimum wage. They do very, very well, including benefits. And if they have seniority under the irresponsible teacher-union-backed scale, they are quite wealthy and by then they don't need to work at all over the summer break.
My suggestion is privatization and a voucher system. Competition forces schools to focus on better outcomes for the students. Wealthy parents have options. Poor parents do not.
Please read about the failures in public education. As I keep saying, it's not that Head Start doesn't help - you seem determined to misread that - it's that with relatively recent changes in public education, exacerbated by the ill-advised COVID shutdown of the public school system (teacher's unions "won" at the expense of everyone there), things are so bad that even good policies like starting school a year earlier are leading to a shocking lack of even basic literacy in our most vulnerable populations.