Obama's Preschool Plan Isn't the Right Fix

I first heard about this article from the Reason Foundation on the Michael Medved show on 1400 AM in Detroit. It is a very good article, and analyzes Barack Obama's recent call for spending $10 billion a year of federal money on early education, through providing unaccountable grants to states that would provide universal preschool for all.

Obama wants children as young as 4 to be forcibly enrolled in government run daycare centers, where government employees will then read to them. Everyone will be forced to pay taxes to support these re-education centers, where students will learn that it's okay to have two mommies and that whitie is the bad guy (he may be and it might be okay, but they probably should learn to read and write too). And once you admit that the state gets your kids at age 4... it's not that much of a stretch for you to give your kids over to the state at age 3... age 2... age 1... just born. It'll stop there though, because in the womb, babies aren't people (according to Obama).

Now, one might be able to stomach the state intruding into the private sphere and taking over a sector of the economy that is going quite well, and doing so at a great cost, if there were dramatic benefits. There aren't. According to Reason Foundation's Lisa Snell, there is a decided lack of lasting benefits in the long-term test scores of kids who go to government-run universal preschool programs. Almost every measurably indicator quite clearly shows that that 10 billion could be better spent elsewhere, or not at all.

Lastly, Obama once again displays his utter disregard to foundational American principles, in this case FEDERALISM, where the states are supposed to play the primary role in education. Everyone who was upset about Bush nationalizing education with NCLB should be very upset about Obama proposing a dramatic increase in the federal government's involvement with your state's young children.