Police chiefs and prosecutors from three northeast Kansas counties got together in Topeka last week to promote early childhood education. “If you care about crime prevention, if you care about saving money and ultimately lives, then you must care about high-quality early education programs,†said Lenexa Police Chief Ellen Hanson at the event sponsored by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids. The crimefighters cited studies favoring greater investment in high-quality early childhood education, asserting that every $1 spent on such programs for at-risk kids saves $16 later on law enforcement, corrections and the like. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius included $30 million more on early childhood programs for at-risk kids in her budget proposal, a tough sell in the current economic climate. Meanwhile, Americans for Prosperity-Kansas proposed as part of its “model†state budget that lawmakers eliminate prekindergarten spending, because “a parent is a child’s most important educator†— which sounds good but ignores the many Kansas parents who are not.
-
Registered?
Commenting on WE Blog now requires you to be a Kansas.com member. Use the links above to register, if you haven't already, or to log in. -
Contact us
Daily Archives
-
Recent Comments
- JMWalker on Open thread 8/29
- BlueJay on McCain’s surprise pick for veep
- Sanford on McCain’s surprise pick for veep
- Monkeyhawk on McCain’s surprise pick for veep
- Kandisue on Media coverage favoring McCain?
- Blaidd_Drwg69 on McCain’s surprise pick for veep
- HLP on McCain’s surprise pick for veep
- HLP on McCain’s surprise pick for veep
- Regular on McCain’s surprise pick for veep
- BlueJay on McCain’s surprise pick for veep
23 Comments
Government wants to compel children to attend its indoctrination camps at an even younger age.
What a bunch of horse manure.
Attending government funded preschool prevents crime?
Screwy thinking. But I guess there is no end to using BS to gain more socialist programs.
The problem is not a lack of early education. It’s a lack of parenting. Pre-school isn’t going to fix that problem. “Fixing” some of the parents would be a more “progressive” approach to the problem.
Keeping preschool age children “off the street” will help take a bite out of crime!
A hearty HA-HA!
Hmmm?
The median income for a family in Lenexa was $76,321.
Yeah…they need a hand out.
Parents don’t know how to raise their kids right. They teach the kids to commit crimes.
Only the Government schools can raise our children.
Kids should be taken away from their parents as soon as they are weened and potty trained. Put em in Public HillaryCare! Kids Villages to be raised right by the Government!
It’s SICK that parents are allowed to raise their own children! Have we not crossed the bridge into the 21st Century yet?
Low income= $16,321
High income=$136,321
median income= $76,321
What’s the mode income in Lenexa?
Lenexa
Year: 2007
Crime Total
Arson 14
Assault 325
Burglary 185
Drug-Offense 319
Rape 8
Robbery 16
Stolen-Auto 152
Theft 1005
Vandalism 370
Murder 0
I wonder which crimes public education criminals are committing?
I wonder which crimes will be reduced if we provide free daycare (kiddy school) for them?
And I wonder what exactly is “high-quality” early childhood education?
Does this include studies into Einsteins Theories of Relativity? Is it all beyond Elmo?
And is “low quality” consist of just nap-time
and play-time?
AmWay, I think in Public Pre-school they teach kids some basic rules:
Thou shall not steal
Thou shall not kill
Thou shall not rape
Thou shall not use or sell drugs
Thou shall not burn things
Thou shall not hit people
These are not taught as basic moral or religious values, they actually read the individual state and federal laws to the kids and have them memorize them all.
Basically teaching them to respect the law, except for the ones they disagree with.
Why are the parents incompetent?
Darn public education didn’t teach them anything about parenting! They do teach birth control, but apparently that doesn’t work or they wouldn’t have all these darn kids who need free public pre-school.
The parents should have had free public pre-school.
Yeah, those kids are just walking recorders.
I think a lot of people forget the fact that children imitated what they see and most under a provided environment of care do not actually initiate their own original thinking and awareness until the age of eight or nine years old.
“. . . which sounds good but ignores the many Kansas parents who are not.”
Then just come out and say that it is your position that the Government should license parents. Any parent failing to obtain the license or annual re-certification process will have their children immediately taken by the state for a proper rearing.
It is time the big government supporters come clean about their positions. Which is that everything should be done by the government. Anything not directly done by the government can only be done with the expressed permission of the government.
Education can solve a lot of problems…
many of which appear to be on this blog….
“Then just come out and say that it is your position that the Government should license parents.”
Maybe not a bad idea. Only, I would change it slightly to call it a Breeders License. I mean why wait until AFTER the kids are born, and then force the state to pay for them when you take them away.
SRS has licensed parent teachers. I had a sister-in-law who had such a license. Her kids are as bad as they come.
You guys are surely correct. Spending money on children is always a bad idea.
In fairness to your position though, it looks like this Police group relied upon polling data to reach their conclusions about the benefit of early education:
http://www.fightcrime.org/
Whereas, Headstart has been shown to have moderate effect sizes on positive learning and the reduction of negative behaviors in pre-school children:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/impact_study/reports/first_yr_execsum/firstyr_sum_highlights.html
Probably is a waste of money, though… Who would want to help kids?, what a wimpy, unmanly thing to do.
Another demonstration of the superiority of the testosterone way, check out this study which shows that when prorole officers try to help their parolees, there is a lowering of recidivism and considerable cost savings. [But, it is sure is unmanly to help people, this idea probably came from the French or some culture like that]
http://www.kansas.com/news/state/story/336792.html
Who would want to help kids?, what a wimpy, unmanly thing to do.
*insert applause here*
kudos!
The four (4) basic ingredients that all children need to achieve academic success…
1. Parents who set high academic standards for
their children
2. Parents who set high behavioral standards
for their children
3. Parents who are actively involved in their
children’s educational journey
4. Parents who read aloud to their children
and encourage their children to read more
often.
All four (4) basic ingredients = academic success
http://www.readtomeamerica.com
Fish, not sure of your point, but that would not be a first for me.
readtome,
Of course, parents have a huge impact on their children’s academic performance. You Pubs have a way of stating the obvious that is unparalleled. If parents for whatever reason are unable, unwilling, etc. to do so, should we foist off that responsibility to tax payers at the highest costs possible? Or should we foist off that cost in the least amount possible?
Easy decision for me. I guess the cons have to think that one through. Dumb butts…
Just another excuse to create a socialist state and spend more or your tax money. These people don’t care about fighting crime other than having to spend the tax money collected rather than put it in their pockets.