In the article “Not kidding around; a push to make kindergarten mandatory has the backing of educators and lawmakers who say it’s vital to development” by Kurt Chirbas, he talks about the option of making kindergarten mandatory. Additionally, he speaks of the importance of kindergarten and the level of educational teachings kindergarten is getting to. Chirbas says that kindergarten is becoming what first grade use to be and is starting to engage in activities to help skills like reading, writing, and mathematics. On another note, he also talks about problems with mandatory kindergarten, and one of those is costs. Studies have shown that a large majority of students attend public kindergarten; the cost of educating the rest of the students would
