The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids (2016)
The preschool my kids go to is starting to implement more school readiness content and I am adamantly opposed to it. Unfortunately, all the other parents are pro &quot;learning&quot; and want the changes.<p>Forcing young children to learn specific topics can only lead to one outcome: a destruction of man&#x27;s natural desire to learn about the world through association of learning with pain.<p>Kids learn all the time at an incredible rate. One day, my daughter came home and said, &quot;Daddy, look at this picture I made: a dog, a cat, a pig, a horse, a cow, a chicken! These are all animals that live on a farm!&quot; Yet when I ask her &quot;did you learn anything at school today,&quot; the answer, invariably, is &quot;no.&quot;<p>To switch out this kind of early childhood education with a curriculum of forced learning intended to mold the child into a bureaucrats ill-conceived vision of a virtuous society is monstrous.