Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 5/11/2007 7:34:00 PM Author: M&M; (shelz1@yahoo.com) Subject: critical? I don't see how anyone can justify mandatory pre-k or kindergarten in a free society. Only a parent should be the one to decide when and if a child is ready for school. Since when do children belong to the government? As the mother of two children (ages 4 & 6) who have never set foot in a school, I can assure you that what is critical to a child's development is involvement in your kid's lives not mandatory attendance in a "school". Frankly the only thing these preschools(glorified daycares) accomplish is make parents more dependant on other people to raise their children. Which in turn makes parents strangers to their own children. And to the person that said that some pre-kers are not ready for school: Do you really think that there is ANY age that ALL children are ready for school? education should not be one-size-fits-all. Readiness varies GREATLY. Many children especially boys are not ready for school until 7 or 8! The only one to decide should be parents. But if you "professionals" keep interceding parents will be completely ignorant of how to raise their own children in a few more years anyway. Then you will have won the battle and you can turn all children into "professionally correct" little replicas of each other. don't worry.... Name: Email: Subject

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