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Whitmer to call for plan to provide pre-K for all 4-year-olds in Michigan

More "cheese". The state is proposing to babysit your kids for yet ANOTHER year of their life. They are not even hiding that the main driver behind this is shifting child care costs to the taxpayers.

Starting the indoctrination earlier. [sigh]

This is what we get in Michigan for electing a democrat house, senate (first time in 40 years) and governor. :confused:

Next they are gonna start coming after us home-schoolers. Starting with just a "registration" program to know who is out there. We will not be registering anybody regardless of any potential new law. Who's kids are they?

Joey Cappelletti Associated Press

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Lansing — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to announce a plan during her State of the State speech Wednesday to provide pre-kindergarten education for all 4-year-olds in Michigan in an attempt to help families with rising costs.

The plan, which Whitmer has pushed since she first ran for governor in 2018, could become a reality with Dcrats in full control of the state government for the first time in decades.

Building on the state's Great Start Readiness Program covering at-risk children of low-income families, the HYOu


You actually believe that education is a bad thing?

What has happened to our nation?

Now educating children is bad.

I put my child in Montessori school at 3 and a half years of age. It was half day for the first year but the next year was full time.

As a result, my child was way ahead of other kids her age when I put her in public school. By the time she finished her sophomore year of high school she qualified for Running Start. That's a program that the student takes a battery of tests and if does very well, they are allowed to go to college their last 2 years of high school. Graduating with their high school diploma and either a AA degree or the first 2 years of college already finished. When my child graduated from high school she had her high school diploma and her first 2 years of college already finished.

But you believe that educating children is bad.

That has got to be one of the most destructive beliefs in our nation.

The communist of Cambodia and pol pot didn't believe in education either. They murdered everyone who was educated or even looked educated. They believed that anyone who wore glasses was educated and murdered them.

The result was that they didn't have people who knew how to build infrastructure, they didn't have doctors or teachers or any of the professions that are needed for a first world nation. They tried to build an irrigation system for the nation's farms. They had murdered all the engineers and anyone who knew how to build something like that and their project for irrigation was a total failure.

I support Whitmer and her proposal. Our whole nation needs to do it.
 
Letting parents back to work early is better for the economy in the long term. Works in other countries, but alas Americans would rather see tax dollars spent on shiny new stealth planes.
 
Are you saying there's no standards for homeschooled kids in this state? (MI)
No registration. No testing.

We have standards as do the co-ops we have been part of over the years.

For HS we did follow the state guidelines as to what subjects and how many credits for each were required for graduation. Went over and above all of them.
 
Letting parents back to work early is better for the economy in the long term.
The economy is what is important. Kids relationships with their parents? Who cares?

The parents would just screw em up anyways, right? /s
Works in other countries, but alas Americans would rather see tax dollars spent on shiny new stealth planes.
Fallacy.
 
Will they be holding trans story hour for the 4 year olds?
 
No registration. No testing.

We have standards as do the co-ops we have been part of over the years.

For HS we did follow the state guidelines as to what subjects and how many credits for each were required for graduation. Went over and above all of them.

Thanks.

I wasn't speaking of yourself, or leveling any insinuations, but without any type of monitoring or regulation, who prevents kids from falling through the cracks or being neglected. Quite honestly, I'm blown-away there's no safeguards in place.
 
The poster I was responding to supported it for ALL students. That was the main point of disagreement on the feeding issue.

How's about all the minors who turn up and ask for food?

I don't even care if they belong to that school, if they say they are hungry. I wouldn't even demand ID.

Tolerate abuse? Of course not.

It would appear so.

You seem to promote the status quo, where those kids are not getting fed.

You appear to be taking a principled stand on the matter of keeping kids hungry, especially if they are being abused.
 
Wow! Age 3? Where are the parents? These children do not belong to the state. Parents need to stop pushing this responsibility off on the taxpayers.

Don't be, this is a horrible idea.

NJ appears to be so "progressive". I'll pass.
How is a single mother supposed to get off welfare with the cost of day-care?
For one thing, anyone who is against abortion should be advocating free or heavily subsidized daycare for low incomes.
 
This is what we get in Michigan for electing a democrat house, senate (first time in 40 years) and governor. :confused:
Its great, ain't it?

Now if we could just get that going in the other states still struggling with alternate reality republicans in office the country would be better off.
 
You actually believe that education is a bad thing?

What has happened to our nation?

Now educating children is bad.

I put my child in Montessori school at 3 and a half years of age. It was half day for the first year but the next year was full time.

As a result, my child was way ahead of other kids her age when I put her in public school. By the time she finished her sophomore year of high school she qualified for Running Start. That's a program that the student takes a battery of tests and if does very well, they are allowed to go to college their last 2 years of high school. Graduating with their high school diploma and either a AA degree or the first 2 years of college already finished. When my child graduated from high school she had her high school diploma and her first 2 years of college already finished.

But you believe that educating children is bad.

That has got to be one of the most destructive beliefs in our nation.

The communist of Cambodia and pol pot didn't believe in education either. They murdered everyone who was educated or even looked educated. They believed that anyone who wore glasses was educated and murdered them.

The result was that they didn't have people who knew how to build infrastructure, they didn't have doctors or teachers or any of the professions that are needed for a first world nation. They tried to build an irrigation system for the nation's farms. They had murdered all the engineers and anyone who knew how to build something like that and their project for irrigation was a total failure.

I support Whitmer and her proposal. Our whole nation needs to do it.

I looked at Montessori for my kids too, as I absolutely love the concept. And just like my kids' Parish School, it also was walking distance.

But in the end I went with the tried & true Catholic System we've used for several generations now. Part of it was I also wanted my kids to have a basic Catholic education, along with a superior academic education, plus I just like the Catholic School environment.

The public schools here are of good quality, so I let my kids make up their own minds about H.S., but they stayed with Catholic Preps - which I was happy to see. With the quality choices they were looking at, I felt their motivation and desire would be more determinate in their academic success than the minor qualitative differences between the institutions they were choosing from. Motivation and interest means a lot to teens!

But unless something were to be found objectionable (I didn't see anything), from what I saw I would heartily endorse the Montessori System. Obviously though, it needs to be the right fit for the right child. But I very much liked what I saw there.

And hey; it's Italian in origin! Can't beat that! ;)
 
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How is a single mother supposed to get off welfare with the cost of day-care?
For one thing, anyone who is against abortion should be advocating free or heavily subsidized daycare for low incomes.
Indeed
 
Indoctrinating 4 year olds, because yanno, it's so going to happen. I'm sure Miss Tiffany and Miss Rachel will be showing the 3 year old gay porn.

Might teach them about sharing and tolerance, like those communists on Sesame Street. Best that kids be homeschooled by rabidly anti-social ideologues instead.
 
You actually believe that education is a bad thing?
Come on. THAT is how you start a discussion? Pathetic.

Yeah, we hate education so much that we chose to home school our 4 children.

What we hate is indoctrination, of which the government schools do a great job.
What has happened to our nation?

Now educating children is bad.
Fallacy.
I put my child in Montessori school at 3 and a half years of age. It was half day for the first year but the next year was full time.
Awesome, isn't choice great!
As a result, my child was way ahead of other kids her age when I put her in public school. By the time she finished her sophomore year of high school she qualified for Running Start. That's a program that the student takes a battery of tests and if does very well, they are allowed to go to college their last 2 years of high school. Graduating with their high school diploma and either a AA degree or the first 2 years of college already finished. When my child graduated from high school she had her high school diploma and her first 2 years of college already finished.

But you believe that educating children is bad.
You keep saying that, is that all you got? Again, pathetic.
That has got to be one of the most destructive beliefs in our nation.
If it were actually believed, yes.
The communist of Cambodia and pol pot didn't believe in education either. They murdered everyone who was educated or even looked educated. They believed that anyone who wore glasses was educated and murdered them.

The result was that they didn't have people who knew how to build infrastructure, they didn't have doctors or teachers or any of the professions that are needed for a first world nation. They tried to build an irrigation system for the nation's farms. They had murdered all the engineers and anyone who knew how to build something like that and their project for irrigation was a total failure.
What the heck does any of this have to do with Michigan in 2022? What an ignorant attempt at an analogy.
It seems that YOU apparently hate education.
I support Whitmer and her proposal. Our whole nation needs to do it.
I do not.
 
The economy is what is important. Kids relationships with their parents? Who cares?

The parents would just screw em up anyways, right? /s

Fallacy.

Would you prefer if at least these pre-K classes were at anti-CRT evangelical charter schools and of course only for white kids? Or is it education in general you're against?
 
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