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Full-day kindergarten program proving popular
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Any middle or upper income child enrolled all day in kindergarten is a product of lazy parent once again looking to push off parental responsibility. Why they have multiple children is a mystery as they just can't wait to put then in pre-school at age two and out of the house as much as possible at an early age. State sponsored baby sitting.
Kids who don't have the advantages of a home that can and should provide preparatory education should again be the only ones going to full day kindergarten.
A full day program could never compensate for the time a child spends in a home with a caring parent. Though there are kids who don't have that kind of home and could possible benefit from a full day program. Lets not let this be full day for all.
Many don't even make it through high school, but is because they are disadvantaged? I don't buy what is being sold, by those making the disadvantaged argument.
When education is valued and the learning is important, the 6 week winter break to Mexico will not be an option. Students will actual show up and do the work. I know it is possible because I see many ESl students that do take advantage and do remarkable. But, as a whole this is only a few.
There also have been many studies in many countries that show that introducing academics at an earlier age doesn't help the students down the road (read as: improve test scores) Why is this? Because the school system ignores child development- Children learn through play! That is a developmental fact, yet when they make kindergarten full day it goes away from having lots of imaginative play (something that helps develop their brains and abstract thinking) They start trying to get 4 and 5 year olds who may or may not be developmentally ready to read etc. The result? Well how would it work to strap a 7th month old who isn't ready for walking into leg braces to make them walk?
This whole day kindergarten thing is very good for any child lucky enough to have it available. But what would be better is having class sizes of fifteen.
Who pays for doubling the incoming kidergarden population within a window of 3 years? How many more class rooms, teachers, lunches, buses, and the list goes on? Money talks and walks!
There is a misconception that all day kindergarten benefits only ELL or low-income children. Actually the some of the children who come to kindergarten with low screening assessments are the "working poor". Those who do not qualify for headstart and cannot afford private preschools.
As for our ELL children-the majority of these children were born in the US. Whether you like it or not they are American citizens. They will probably never go back to where their parents came from-and they are not all from Mexico. Our choice is to educate them well so that they will be productive, contributing members of our society.
Kindergarten is not mandatory in Utah so why would all day be mandatory, however Utah has one of the highest kindergarten attendance rates in the nation, showing that we value the kindergarten experience.
One of the biggest problems in our education system in Utah is the pupil-teacher ratio. When will parents and teachers become radical enough to say enough is enough and demand legislative mandated pupil-teacher ratios. 25-35 in a kindergarten class is too many. Don't believe those who say it doesn't make a difference.
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