By Owen Paine on Thursday June 8, 2006 05:54 PM
Instead of wacking away for Busby,
maybe Prop 82 needed the spotlight.
It failed, and with it the cause of universal free preschool for California's 4-year-olds -- paid, for, N.B., by a rich mans' tax.
Comments (4)
I'm sorry. Not everyone who voted against this turkey was a conservative or a vichy dem. Color me skeptical, but there are no demonstrated studies by neutral parties that show universal preschool would work over the medium or long term. Color me libertarian about another program to increase State indoctrination and control during childhood.
(Great site, overall!)
Posted by Brian Miller | June 9, 2006 1:43 AM
Posted on June 9, 2006 01:43
Brian got me with this line:
Ivan Ilyich says in Deschooling Society that the "reward of schooling is... more schooling." This line has evoked an involuntary rueful laugh from every member of the merit class I've ever quoted it to -- except teachers, of course.Posted by MJS | June 9, 2006 2:43 AM
Posted on June 9, 2006 02:43
wow some actual disagreement here
at death to the donks...
i feel alive ...
really alive
whilst dame michael
does his remrakably convincing
ethel merman act
at casino kos
i'll say but this for now
long range schooling is my enemy
i believe the free and compulsory
public system
needs to end at about grade 8
i call it 12 in 8 and out
end the high school draft
but pre school thats where my sense of
socialization
comes in
i'd of course settle for
universal 10 hour
free day care
from zero to 13
at the rich mans exspense
with choice ah yes choice
and as to libertarianism
you ain't read my mind ....
and just how sick it really is
hell start at 4
by 4 i'll have em
so socialized harmonized
and egotistically
circumsized
they 'll grow
from there
to be lambs
to the job slaaughter
see i'm a BIG T totalizer
from way back
but early to cut out all that muzzlin and boo hoo
slogan two
never again
no more generations like the boomer upper middle
no more bratocracy
clinton little georgie
orgie
ask doc smiff when he returns from
his beknighted errantry
as a sargent cuckoo
in the kositonian
distaffery
u just him
about me and 4 year olds
i'll give em a choice
all right
pre school or barboil
whats the second?
a 4 foot pot of red hot bubbling
gin
Posted by js paine | June 9, 2006 7:41 AM
Posted on June 9, 2006 07:41
"Another salvo came from private preschools, notably many Montessori schools, over concerns that increased competition from a state-run program would threaten their business and their education philosophies."
Haha their education philosophies? What's philosophies might those be? Many must live poorly, so we can live well?
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2006 10:45 AM
Posted on June 9, 2006 10:45