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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about families who really need free care?  Aren't they more deserving than you, who have many options because of your income?[/quote]

If you view school as just daycare, you're part of the problem.  A large part, actually.  [/quote]

I believe the point was that public PS3 and PK4 programs were created [i]specifically[/i] to provide decent early childhood education for children of low-income parents who can't or won't read to their kids or expose them to other early learning activities/opportunities.  It's called Head Start - you might want to do some quick research.  The whole idea was for the programs to be a social benefit - children who have engaged in early childhood are likely to do better in school, more likely to graduate, and more likely to become self-sufficient adults, which should be the goal of any humane, advanced society.  Bitch all you want about low-income parents (or any parents, really) viewing school as daycare.  I don't care how they view it, I would simply prefer that their children grow up to be able to contribute to society as opposed to taking from it.

So which do you want?  A system that says screw those poor kids, who then grow up to be under or unemployed and more likely to engage in crime, have children of their own that they can't take care of, etc etc or one that says ok, these kids are here, let's deal with reality and help them to become productive members of society?  The cost-benefit analysis is pretty brainless to parse out, PP.  [/quote]

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