Won´t help. He needs to support intact families...that´s real key. Talk to any teacher.

A study several years indicated that children given the advantage of pre-school lost that advantage a few years into the regular school routine.

This is nothing but state-funded day care. More out-of-control entitlements. If parents do not want the responsibility of caring for very young children, they should not have them. Don´t expect your neighbor to pay for care.

Indoctrinate the Children...right out of the Marxist Manafesto! Our Union run ´education´ system has been doing it for years and a majority of parents just don´t get why their kids are Commies!

Is there any area, even a tiny area, of our lives that Obama does not want to control and dominate. He is a power-hungry monster. The most frightening thing about him is that a significant portion of the American public worships him.

That´s a great idea plus it´s free it won´t add one "dime" to the deficit! /s

What an idiot he is. His ideology blinds him to the truth. If expanded it will end up costing billions of dollars we don´t have for another program we don´t need. Both parties are addicted to spending. The fiscal cliff is fast approaching.

How does he intend to pay for it? Hint..He doesn´t.

How did us 50-somethings survive with non-academic half-day kindergarten?

It goes beyond worship #6. They are throne cushion sniffers fighting for a place in line. Any questions, see Chris Matthews.

Incredulous! Is this the role of POTUS?? The last I knew this was the role for states!!

...and don´t worry, he´s not a socialist.

Every parent should REFUSE to attend this nightmare of marxist indoctrination. He wants to take your kids away; he wants your kids to love the government, not the country, but the government; he wants the kids to betray their parents when they talk ill of the government they were taught to love.

NO NO NO

I guess that the $50Billion to run this abomination will come from military budgets or more taxes on the rich earners, not those who already have their money hidden.

Fix the one´s we have, before creating more. Not to mention that education is not a federal responsibility.

Classroom space, teachers, buses. Yes, I can see how that won´t add to the deficit.

Here in AZ, we went from half-day to full-day kindergarten. Janet Napolitano, our governor before she became "Big Sis," used it as a bribe for political support. It is a free daycare program. Full day is great for kids who are ready, but a nightmare for the immature and slightly younger kids. You can bet that parents whose kids barely miss the age cutoff whine until their 4 10/12 year-olds are permitted to go to kindergarten. Don´t even get me started on the early drop off and late pickups for parents who can´t be bothered to pay for and arrange for the daycare center buses to collect their kids.

Then our local district started an all-day preschool program at one school. Little kids were bused from all over the district. That meant you had four-year-olds stuck in a classroom all day. I saw those kids and they were whiny, tired and lots were sucking their thumbs.

Didn´t I read that billions of dollars were spent on Head Start, with little to show for the expenditure?

#4 has it right. Indoctrinate the young children. The Left has been doing that for decades... and look at the absurd 2012 Election outcome!

Oh great another program that won´t work

I won´t mention the country in Europe...that did this with kids. Took them away from parents and the ´´state´´ raised them to their own image and likeness!!! Parents be ware! You´re about to lose your kids to this new regime of ... well, you know!

Any maybe only the parents with kids should be made to pay for this socialized baby sitting garbage. Same kind of thing as only the ones that smoke pay the extra tax on their cigarettes or the only that buy/purchase anything are the ones that pay for the service.

Middle class moms, you are working because you have to pay for these programs for yourselves and all the non-working people (won´t call them unemployed as most never want to be employed). So, you´re leaving your children to be raised by others so that others don´t have to raise theirs either. Is that the deal that you want?

Another social engineering initiative wrapped in the cloak of economics.

I too agree with #4. If this is the direction 0bama and his Marxist regime are heading it won´t be long before the statists just take your baby and you will be allowed sparse visitation rights after they have completed their brainwashing and the child has dutifully pleged their allegiance to the state. I´m sick of hearing their bleating that "it´s for the children." They are blatant, pathological liars who just want more money to dole out to their union comrades.

#1, you are mistaken. It will work beautifully on those children who enter it. There are a lot of children whose parents have already made them resistant to indoctrination by the time they are five, getting them into the education camps...I mean schools, a year earlier will give the government an additional year at an age when children are even more susceptible to indoctrination.

Oh, you thought this was about turning out better educated children. No, no, no, if they wanted educated children they would encourage one of the parents to stay home and teach them themselves.

More union dues for the NEA or AFT. Nothing more.
Studies of Head Start have shown anything gained is lost by third grade.
And PBS actually held a conference, about 20 years ago, to discuss Sesame Street. The results of studies showed that all children, regardless of race, gained by watching Sesame Street. And the conference participants actually brainstormed for ways to deny access to Sesame Street by white chillun. Seriously.

Obama must have secretly been in the service, because he spends like the classic drunken sailor!

"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future."

Adolf Schicklgruber
(1889-1945)

Why stop there. When mom is discharged after delivering the baby send her home and send the baby to "school". Mon´s and Dad´s are the answer. Intact caring families to actually play and care for their children.

Can you say Madrassa? I knew you could! Now open up your wallets and contribute.

Here in CA. the liberals voted for a program backed by Rob Reiner. It was a tax for free pre-school. As far as I know after years there is still no pre-school. Money is sitting in a fund with the Politicians drooling over the money just sitting there.

This is nothing more than an employment program for minority teachers.

Money,skin color & the poor are not the issue. Chinese did this before the communists moved in & took over. They also closed all the bars & brothels to please the missionaries - thus Communist China. "Goodie programs are the agenda of the day to brainwash more American children like all socialist & communist countries. 4 years olds give me a break?

Here it comes, let the communista state raise your child and indoctrinate him/her from cradle to voting age. I see parades with toddlers marching with red aprons and yellow and red bandannas or little checkered turbans- singing John Lennon songs, holding their tiny little fists up int he air. So cute!

"Free" babysitting. Remember the uproar when GWB said that Heat Start should actually teach kids something?

You guys can´t even run the Post Office!

More teachers union parasites.

Great.

So our malcontent Kommie Dicktater is also a...
Wannabe Kindergarten Kop.

We are commanded by Muslimini.
Surely we must obey?

The concept of, ´´pre-kindergarten,´´ is a recent development in the U.S.A. by statist pols whose PC agenda is indeed to micro-manage everyone in the U.S.A. from the, ´cradle to the grave.´ ...Not so coincidentally, since the radical community activists like 0bama have been pushing their approach of fracturing the American family even more than their vile NEA-deemed public school policies already have, the public educational system in the USA has continued to tank. America´s educational system excelled until just a couple of decades ago, when the ´60s militants attained tenure! Their statist policies are demonstrably dumbing-down America´s children and youths with their failed, ´progressive/socialist,´ policies and degenerate social tangent! Now they are even going for pre-school children?!! -YIKES!!!

Better beware of this wacky socialist power grab over children!

Cradle to the grave.....

Hmm, as I was reading this, it occurred to me that this was Hillary´s mantra when First Lady. Wasn´t she blabbing about this?

How many white kids in Atlanta do you think are in the Head Start Program ?