‘Slow Start’ to Level Pre-School Playing Field
(2003-10-30) — The Senate version of the Head Start reform bill would rename and ‘re-mission’ the Great Society program. Instead of trying to prepare poor children for school in hopes of enhancing achievement, ‘Slow Start’ will enroll children from middle-class and wealthy families and attempt to “confuse and de-motivate them” so that they won’t excel their peers from low-income families.
‘Slow Start’ is part of the Democrat party’s new ‘No Child Leaved Ahead’ program, designed to prevent underachievers from suffering self-esteem drainage when they note the superior performance of their classmates.
“Our nation was founded on equality,” said Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy. “But the poor kids will never catch up if we don’t do something to trip up the rich kids.”
Mr. Kennedy expects that enrollment in the ‘Slow Start’ program will exceed Head Start in its first year.
“Most well-off people have just lucked into their money,” said the Senator. “They feel guilty about how their clever little prodigies always bust the grading curve. They would love to do something to level the playing field, and they’re willing to stoop to conquer inequality.”
Equality first
If Head Start can’t boost the achievement of low-income students, the solution is obvious: Slow Start will level the playground. Instead of trying to prepare poor children for school in hopes of enhancing achievement, ‘Slow Start’ will enroll children …
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‘Slow Start’ to Level Pre-School Playing Field
ScrappleFace has a really cute piece about achieving equality in schools: The Senate version of the Head Start reform bill would rename and ‘re-mission’ the Great Society program. Instead of trying to prepare poor children for school in hopes…
Trackback by Idealogian — October 30, 2003 @ 1:53 pm
How to Achieve Equality
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Slow Start
Scrappleface does it again - here’s a report on Slow Start, a program that is part of the Democratic Party’s
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The Head Start exam, and its detractors
The Head Start standardized tests have arrived: The new federal emphasis on accountability in education reached Nate Kidder recently in the form of his first standardized achievement test. Nate is 4 years old. He sat on the edge of his…
Trackback by Number 2 Pencil — November 3, 2003 @ 4:57 pm
How to Achieve Equality
Scott Ott shows how to achieve educational equality. A similar principle exists in economics: to achieve economic equality, take it away from all the rich people and give it to government programs which are advertised as helping the less well…
Trackback by Right Left Whatever — June 7, 2004 @ 3:12 pm