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Government Pre-K, Because Government Schools Are Working Out Great
Albert Einstein is widely credited with saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” That’s the story with the majority of progressive plans for more and more government: Let’s keep piling more and more money into the government solving our problems, because one day, one day, they’ll get it right.
Enter: President Joe Biden’s new plan to make parenthood more affordable, with yet another government-funded program for universal pre-K. The plan would give: $109 billion for free community college, $200 billion to make free prekindergarten regardless of income, $225 billion each for national paid leave and child care.
Of course, nothing in life is free, and nothing of quality is, either.
We’ve seen over the last year how well free government schools are working out. Parents are ripping their hair out in frustration over teachers, unions, and government officials who contemptuously scoff if they have the audacity to want their children to receive regular and in-person instruction, even if it means they have to pay for it.
Even Democrats on the local level have reached their breaking point with the government’s feeble efforts at “educating” our kids:
Nebraska Senator Justin Wayne (D) tells his colleagues he'll vote against the school choice bill if they agree to send their own kids to public schools. pic.twitter.com/JzvS7iW6FE
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) April 28, 2021
So after we’ve seen how seriously the government takes educating our kids age K-12, why would or should Americans trust them to adequately care for our children before they enter government schools? We need to be giving American parents more choice and more freedom, not more dependence on the government’s whims when it comes to the health and well-being of our kids.
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Duh Bethany. If we get the little critters indoctrinated earlier government schooling will cost less in the long run. Get it? /sarc off/
I just thought of some thing. Bethany should go on Andrew Wilkow’s show because he always makes a big deal out of calling them “government schools” instead of public schools. Everybody should do that.
Rep. Nan Hayworth’s Twitter feed has been pretty interesting on this topic. I really like her.
If you comprehensively hit the reset button on education in this country and made the goal would it ought to be, human capital development, it would look 1000% different. Right now it’s pretty much just for the Education Monolith to rip off the taxpayers and the students and it’s for indoctrination.
What a fine speech we got last night, such a target rich broadcast.
As someone pointed out, we can now have the janitor paying the CEO’s tuition.
We heard that we’re not keeping up with the Chinese on the eduction front. Think the Chinese are pushing gender studies? I could almost get behind assistance for STEM majors coupled with a sharp limit on on STEM job immigration. Nope.
We’ve already got an arrested development problem with millenials starting careers a few years later than previous generations. Just give them a couple of extra years before leaving their parent’s basement, that’ll make us more competitive.
What about free pre-k for the moms who don’t work? Why should we pay for that again? Maybe complete the circle of fail by paying unemployed moms to watch their own 3 year olds. Oh wait, that’s in there too.
And it’s all free! Free! Because there’s no chance corporations will charge more for their goods and services after their taxes go up. No sir, only hitting up the millionaires and billionaires to pay for all this. Fair share and all…
I swear, there’s got to be some connection between loss of common sense and wearing masks after being vaccinated.
Dems in general, and Biden in particular, seem to believe that *allocating lots of money to something* is the same as *actually getting something done.* Reminds me…
I once took a new job at a company that, as was well-known, had some serious problems. One woman who worked for me in this new role was running a marketing & product management group responsible for our success in a particular focused industry. The first presentation she gave me was all about how the competitors were clobbering us, in lots of different ways. No hint of a strategy or a plan to develop one. The last slide of her presentation said:
“What do we need?? RESOURCES!!!”
Actually, what the group needed was different management, which I arranged for it to get.
I think one of the most obvious fails of the call for more resouces is city public schools where we’re closing in on $20K per year per student and getting miserable results. They graduate students who can’t balance a checkbook, who can’t read at adult level. Who believes $30K would fix it?
It fits into that old template, It’s okay for the government to expand or get into ____ now, because ____ is perfect and needs no more work.
I guess, if you’re a Democrat, money does grow on trees.
But they know when to act offended: whenever Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, etc, snap their fingers.
If you can’t get a movement for upending the government-school model after the pandemic year performance, you never will.
The far left, and they all seem to be that now, want total power and they are likely to get it. We’re acting as if we’ll replace them in the next election. We had the election stolen with Trump in the White House. What is the likelihood of avoiding that next year? Living in a dream world is not new to Republicans in power. We’ll eventually fix it right? And the Chinese will play no role in that future.