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…

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

*insert applause here*
kudos!

http://www.kansas.com/news/state/story/336792.html

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.

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.

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.

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.

Basically teaching them to respect the law, except for the ones they disagree with.

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

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?

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?

What’s the mode income in Lenexa?

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?

The median income for a family in Lenexa was $76,321.

Yeah…they need a hand out.

A hearty HA-HA!

Screwy thinking. But I guess there is no end to using BS to gain more socialist programs.