Hat tip to for the link to Diane Flynn Keith of UniversalPreschool.com
Protect Our Kids from Preschool, 22 August 2008, The Wall Street Journal
Our understanding of the effects of preschool is still very much in its infancy. But one inescapable conclusion from the existing research is that it is not for everyone. Kids with loving and [...]
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This op/ed surfaced in the news reader’s list because homeschooling is given as a choice for parents. The point of the article is that children below the age of compulsory attendance are not included in the public schooling system, and that this exclusions is the cause of the sad life of that disadvantaged children live with their disinterested [...]
‘While looking for something else’ I found an article about what used to be pre…schools (and that earlier were known as ‘nursery schools’) and are now called “preK.” I think the change in wording from “pre[before]-school” to ”pre[before]-K[indergarten]” is significant, but I will leave that point alone this time, as I will the point about education as an industry.
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Not so fast: Home schooling trumps full-day kindergarten Jun. 18, 2009 The Globe and Mail Amira Elghawaby
Research shows home-schooled kids outperform their public-school peers. So why so is there little or no financial encouragement for parents to take it on?
Seated beside a mom with coiffed hair, polished nails and an elegant suit, I listened wide-eyed [...]
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