Does Texas need universal Pre-K as Democrats claim?
Among the oddest things that has persisted throughout the gubernatorial campaign has been the claim by Wendy Davis that Gregg Abbott wants to push legislation that would require standardized testing for four-year-olds.
Greg Abbott
When this claim first came out, it was hammered down easily but for some reason Davis continues to make it. Abbott’s education plan is has been posted on his website for a long while and it has nothing in it about implementing standardized testing for four-year-olds.
Most four-year-olds are not even in school though it is true that Democrats want to massively expand the education bureaucracy to get children out of parent control and into state indoctrination at a much earlier age with Pre-K and even what’s often called pre-Pre-K. The empirical data is clear that most any gains made with Pre-K disappear by about fourth grade meaning that the gains are hardly justifiable as such are temporary and do not affect long term educations success. [1] [2] [3]
Wendy Davis
It bothers me that Davis and Van de Putte want to further diminish parenting by pulling children out of the home at even earlier ages – it says something of what they think of the parenting skills of their constituents.
There is already Pre-K for those who need such due to socio-economic circumstances and I can tell you from experience in helping start a Pre-K program at a Charter School that the vast majority of the folk applying were looking for free daycare, not academic achievement. Expanding Pre-K to all is the current fad of the Left across Texas, it is a bad investment and puts kids in the hands of government for indoctrination far too early.
Wendy Davis untruthful about 4-year-old testing claim
Does Texas need universal Pre-K as Democrats claim?
Among the oddest things that has persisted throughout the gubernatorial campaign has been the claim by Wendy Davis that Gregg Abbott wants to push legislation that would require standardized testing for four-year-olds.
Greg Abbott
When this claim first came out, it was hammered down easily but for some reason Davis continues to make it. Abbott’s education plan is has been posted on his website for a long while and it has nothing in it about implementing standardized testing for four-year-olds.
Most four-year-olds are not even in school though it is true that Democrats want to massively expand the education bureaucracy to get children out of parent control and into state indoctrination at a much earlier age with Pre-K and even what’s often called pre-Pre-K. The empirical data is clear that most any gains made with Pre-K disappear by about fourth grade meaning that the gains are hardly justifiable as such are temporary and do not affect long term educations success. [1] [2] [3]
Wendy Davis
It bothers me that Davis and Van de Putte want to further diminish parenting by pulling children out of the home at even earlier ages – it says something of what they think of the parenting skills of their constituents.
There is already Pre-K for those who need such due to socio-economic circumstances and I can tell you from experience in helping start a Pre-K program at a Charter School that the vast majority of the folk applying were looking for free daycare, not academic achievement. Expanding Pre-K to all is the current fad of the Left across Texas, it is a bad investment and puts kids in the hands of government for indoctrination far too early.