Universal Preschool
"Has the time come for universal preschool" addresses the topic of expanding child development with the financial support of the Federal Government. The push for this is cautioned by many who believe that jumping into a large-scale initiative should be avoided, if not done with extreme caution. The push comes from states who have already started providing public preschools and an attempt to make it more available for parents and their students.
Pros
One of the benefits of providing universal daycare and funding programs like Kids-First agenda is that students learn "soft" skills such as dependability, consistency, and emotional control. Though never a guarantee it's less likely for students who build these skills early to …show more content…
The words repeat again and again about "engaged parents" and "engaged teachers". You're not going to change the world by funnelling money into programs that don't have engagement. The achievement gap isn’t going to close by sending all students to preschool. We know this because most of the education we do is provided by the parents themselves anyways. What the parents do or do not do that counts much more then any early education program.
Providing information is one thing, but forcing others place up defensive walls. You're talking about control and how we want our government to give money to one group of people or one organization that can then put it's ideals onto another. It doesn't make for a safe environment even with the greatest intentions as we're humans and it can be corrupted. Not to mention that the idea of how varied opinions are for parents choice when it comes to child care. It would be impossible for the government to allow for such variety in a …show more content…
They would have been exposed to communal disease faster, and had been introduced to social skills of the community. Perhaps this means for by the time they reach the secondary level they will have been engrained into their small brains "expectations" and "silence".
I don't know if this means that students who go to preschool will be more successful in reading, writing, and math then students who stay home for another year. I believe that the idea is that children will have a better chance for academic success because they will have been introduced to ideas that may or may not be taught by their own parents or other providers. Yet, this isn't what others say as the Washington Post mentions how public schools fail to reach their own achievement gains, which is a similar opinion to others about public school in
"Has the time come for universal preschool" addresses the topic of expanding child development with the financial support of the Federal Government. The push for this is cautioned by many who believe that jumping into a large-scale initiative should be avoided, if not done with extreme caution. The push comes from states who have already started providing public preschools and an attempt to make it more available for parents and their students.
Pros
One of the benefits of providing universal daycare and funding programs like Kids-First agenda is that students learn "soft" skills such as dependability, consistency, and emotional control. Though never a guarantee it's less likely for students who build these skills early to …show more content…
The words repeat again and again about "engaged parents" and "engaged teachers". You're not going to change the world by funnelling money into programs that don't have engagement. The achievement gap isn’t going to close by sending all students to preschool. We know this because most of the education we do is provided by the parents themselves anyways. What the parents do or do not do that counts much more then any early education program.
Providing information is one thing, but forcing others place up defensive walls. You're talking about control and how we want our government to give money to one group of people or one organization that can then put it's ideals onto another. It doesn't make for a safe environment even with the greatest intentions as we're humans and it can be corrupted. Not to mention that the idea of how varied opinions are for parents choice when it comes to child care. It would be impossible for the government to allow for such variety in a …show more content…
They would have been exposed to communal disease faster, and had been introduced to social skills of the community. Perhaps this means for by the time they reach the secondary level they will have been engrained into their small brains "expectations" and "silence".
I don't know if this means that students who go to preschool will be more successful in reading, writing, and math then students who stay home for another year. I believe that the idea is that children will have a better chance for academic success because they will have been introduced to ideas that may or may not be taught by their own parents or other providers. Yet, this isn't what others say as the Washington Post mentions how public schools fail to reach their own achievement gains, which is a similar opinion to others about public school in