Support declines to expand transitional kindergarten
By Sharon Noguchisnoguchi, San Jose Mercury News
Though support for expanding elementary education to all 4-year-olds has fallen dramatically since the spring, a majority of Californians still believe in sending young children to preschool, a poll released Tuesday shows.
A Field Poll shows that 58 percent of voters think it is very important for the state to spend more so that all low-income 4-year-olds have access to state-supported preschool.
But only 39 percent of voters said California should spend $1.4 billion to expand the state’s newest elementary-school grade, known as transitional kindergarten, to all 4-year-olds.
That compares with 57 percent advocating expansion in a similar poll in April.
The latest poll, taken in October with the not-for-profit Oakland-based group EdSource, was conducted in English and Spanish by phone with 1,010 registered voters in the state.
Californians are realizing that they’re running out of money for all these government programs. They’ve run out of other people’s money, now it’s starting to eat into their own pocketbooks.
Destroying public education so school privatization can continue the dumbing down of the proletariat is probably only the 2nd most important goal of the 1%ers and their sycophants.
Only because the Social Security funds are a bigger pile of $$$ they can steal.
You make no sense. They’re not destroying anything. They are trying to INCREASE the scope of the public school system, and the tax payers aren’t buying it anymore.
Because the California public school system is SO far superior to any form of private education, right??
/sarc
Dog logic, yup, transitional kindergarten might have helped back then, too late…
Studies have shown that Head Start programs, though they helped in the very earliest grades, proved to not help at all past 3rd grade. The kids level out.
So, no, it’s unlikely it would help academic achievement at all.
And gee, thanks to you both for keeping it civil and impersonal.
/sarc
Early childhood education is NOT about academic development…it is about learning appropriate social interaction. Sad that so many forces work to tear that down.
Hmmmm, I have worked in preschools and my observation is that kids that learn social interaction at an early age deal with regular school routines so much better. It helps with the transitions to more social interactions, kids learn the rules and routines quicker and they seem to have more respectful behavior in general. Certainly there are exceptions but thats just what I observed.
Well, I suppose it’s one of those issues where the people who believe children should be “socialized” to the collective are always going to disagree with those who believe that the family love and input is more important.
And let’s not forget Dogula, that religion is really socialism at it’s purest form.
Wut?
That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. And what does religion have to do with this conversation??
I think children benefit from socialization with other children at an early age because through that they learn to communicate, to share, to set and honor boundaries, to consider others. AND they learn to be an individual who exists in a larger group. That includes family. As population grows and resources become scarce due to the hyper-concentration of wealth and privilege maybe some would argue that greed is something to be taught. I hope those people didn’t have children. Contrary to some belief systems, I think that ‘playing well with others’ is a virtue.
@nature bats last-i agree.
The moon approaches fullness and dog is as rabid as ever. Connection? Id say yes…