Comments about ‘Preschool program latest improvement for high-risk Utah school’

This better work really, really well.

The kids benefitting from this program, and probably their kids as well, will be paying interest on the borrowed $1.8 million cost that was borrowed from the Chinese for decades to come, until it eventualy can be paid back.

Just because it would be nice to have a better pre-school program (what has happenened to the billions spent on Sesame Street and Head Start?) that does not mean that we can afford it.

I would like a newer car, bigger house and larger TV, but I cannot afford it, and I know it. So, I do without, or decide to stop eating at restaurants so I can afford other things.

Washington and Utah school districts need to take the same approach. If you don't have the money, you either do without or find something else to give up to pay for it.

There is no more money, and we are buried in debt already!

It's a grant, not a loan, and has been authorized for 3 years. I live in this area, and have worked as a Special Ed teacher's aide for a few years in the middle school and elementary school. The children in Eagle View come from poor homes, many are single parent homes, many have alcohol and drug problems, and the children are not taught basic academic skills at home. Not every home within the school's boundary is this way, of course, but there are very many that are. Most of the children live on the Reservation, and I believe this program, and any other program that can help the students achieve, and aim for higher goals is beneficial, and could go a long way toward breaking the cycle of dependency on drugs, alcohol, handouts, etc. These are beautiful children with much potential, given the chance to develop it.

Is cradle to grave education really the responsibly of tax payers or education? Not in my book. Preschool is a time when children and family bond and become socially part of the family clan. Preschool is a time of brain growth and development and is not developed enough to test or evaluate a life choice for them yet. They haven't even gotten over being babies and soiling their diapers yet.

Kindergarten is the established time for children to begin their learning and education. The arrogance of eduction to think they should be baby sitting infants is appalling and uncalled for. This idea of preschool becoming a grade level is is waste and child abuse. Forcing preschool children to formal education is irresponsible and mind control objectives.

The only reason many push this idea is to cut costs for parents to hire baby sitters. Kindergarten is a proven long existing standard where many children are developed to begin learning and gain social skills outside the family. Any one in education thinking a preschooler is ready for education is a fool and dumber than a preschooler. You learn when you are ready, not when someone says you must learn.

Better make sure the school adds some economics to the curriculum.

One of their teachers states "It's a grant, not a loan, and has been authorized for 3 years"

The semantic difference between a grant or loan is moot. The money is coming from the federal government, which has borrowed it (mostly from China) and every U.S. taxpayer is now saddled with the burden to pay that back, along with the other 16 trillion dollars we have borrowed and promised to pay back for all those other "good" programs dreamed up by liberals.

"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you runout of other people's money to spend."