Pre-K Education
Mayor
Bill de Blasio, the newly elected mayor of New York has hit the floor running,
introducing a new and ambitious pre kindergarten plan which will “extend free,
full-day, ‘high quality’ pre-K across the city in two years, eventually to
reach more than 73,000 four year olds” with a separate after-school initiative
for middle-schoolers. He proposes to pay for it by a “small, five-year income
tax increase on those earning $500,000 a year or more”. Hooray for Mayor de
Blasio! We should adopt a plan like (or better than) his throughout the nation
immediately, if not sooner. Over the years of the future, it will surely pay
for itself.
We
have a problem in this country, folks–a serious problem, an extremely serious
problem. The world certainly isn’t going to come to an end, but life as we know
it (and our government) cannot continue on its present path. I predict a crash
is coming–a real crash, if we don’t change. You know that we can’t continue
with half the country (Obviously, I’m talking in generality) supporting the
other half. On the other hand, you also know we cannot abide being governed by
a dictator or oligarchy reducing us to serfdom or slavery.
I
have said before, we have approximately forty-seven percent of our people
living in poverty and receiving some type of welfare or support, including
twenty million unemployed or under employed; and, as I have also said
previously, we have another twenty million people in our prisons. That comes
close to half, doesn’t it? Our inner-city ghettos are full; and, in a manner of
speaking, effectively isolated from our suburbs, jobs, and opportunities. You
may argue with that. With a full stomach and a pay-check, it is easy to do; but
I believe what I have just said to be substantially true. I, also, believe that
those in our “underclass”, based on current events, are growing in numbers and
will soon outnumber the rest of us.
We
have been told the poor will always be with us, and I believe that; but, I also
believe we should do our utmost to eliminate poverty to the fullest extent
possible. To this end, we must eliminate the underclass in our country to an
absolute minimum. We must instill values in our youth, eliminate gangs, eliminate
crime and drugs, and eliminate dependence. Our people must be educated and
develop job skills in order to be productive and, therefore, self sufficient
and responsible citizens. That’s what I
propose; and education is the most essential component of any possible course
of action we can take to achieve that end.
It is in the
early years of life, our early childhood, when we learn the fastest and the
most–when we form our attitudes and views of the world around us. Pre
kindergarten is an excellent starting point to take advantage of this. It is imperative.
I say again, kudos to Mayor de Blasio.
Ronald Miller
mtss86@comcast.net
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