There is a major difference in the development of students who have not had pre-kinder and come into kindergarten straight from their parent's house. Pre-kinder helps to socially acclimate students by exposing them to the teacher/student relationship, and to other children their age that are not a part of their family. It teaches them their alphabet and numbers and helps set the ground work for kindergarten. Now, instead of spending money to educate these children, the state of Texas would rather spend money building prisons to house them in the future. Uneducated children who struggle in school are more likely to turn to lives of crime and become future inmates. Did you know that prisons are built based on 3rd grade literacy rates? If a child doesn't learn to read by the first grade, chances are they may never learn, and if they do it will be much more difficult. And now with no pre-kinder, or kinder where will they be?
But it doesn't stop there, these new budget cuts will close four community colleges.Who goes to community college you might ask? Those of us that can't afford to go to a big, over-priced, four year college right away. It will also virtually eliminate financial aid for all incoming freshman and students. No FINANCIAL AID for college?! College is already grotesquely overpriced as it is, and financial aid makes it possible for those of us that don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars lying around.
Let's keep this wagon rolling, there's more. If you didn't vote in last year's election, please take this moment to slap yourself. Go ahead, I'll wait.
This plan for destruction will eliminate 9,600 state jobs, (not including the jobless pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers), and cut more than 700 million dollars at state universities and colleges.
So buckle up Texans, it's going to be a rough, elitist, ill-planned ride. (to hell)
Wow! Why does Texas want to suck? Do they want us to end up like the NOLA school system which is ridiculously bad? Education is the stupidest thing you can cut, for all the reasons you named.
ReplyDeleteTexas has some backwardness. For starters the state voted overwhelmingly for John McCain over Barrack Obama, and then just to make matters worse they decide to take massive budget cuts that hurt college students. I have been a casualty. At my job, hourly waged student workers were laid off due to the budget cuts. Something needs to be done about this.
ReplyDeleteOh Mel, you have no idea how much this is breaking my heart seeing my baby is about to go to pre-k! Why cut anything to do with education? I have so much to say about this issue, but it really gets me fired up! I just wish these people would think with their minds and hearts instead of their pockets!
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