Re: San Diego UT on Prop 82

[Lisa Lisa <teacher_davis2002@yahoo.com>]

The KEYWORD here is QUALITY PRESCHOOLS.   How many of
them out there do you know of??? Where is the research
to determine where those quality preschools are
located?  Are they equal across neighborhoods,
boundaries, I bet not...
 What happens to the children in low income or already
overcrowded schools?  Where are all of these preschool
children going to fit??
 What you say about kids who attend quality preschools
is true, but the real issue is QUALITY PRESCHOOLS. 
Just like another ongoing issue has been QUALITY
SCHOOLS (OR LACK THEREOF....)

--- George Sheridan <learn@jps.net> wrote:

> Children who attend quality preschool read earlier,
> learn faster and 
> succeed at a far higher rate than those who don't
> get the opportunity. 
> Proposition 82 would provide free, voluntary,
> quality preschool to all 
> 4-year-olds in California. (Today, only 20 percent
> of the state's 
> 4-year-olds have this opportunity.) Those who oppose
> this measure for 
> various reasons are just making excuses because they
> don't like the fact 
> that Proposition 82 is written so that the very
> wealthy will be made to 
> foot the bill.
> 
> The San Diego Union Tribune is even less likely than
> the Wall Street 
> Journal to give good advice on economic or social
> policy. I'm not sure even 
> Rich Gibson meant for us to be swayed by the paper's
> editorial position. 
> Two minutes after posting the message to which you
> replied, he sent a 
> message saying "I'm going to vote for this thing ...
> because I don't think it is useful to take what is
> largely a principle 
> (opposition to the capitalist state and its schools)
> related to most of 
> reality, and to force it down onto all of reality,
> when things are 
> sometimes more complex. I am going to vote for this
> thing because of some 
> complexities. ... I think if this thing passes, it
> creates better terrain 
> for social change."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 06:38 PM 6/5/2006 -0700, Jo Behm wrote:
> >Agree Prop 82 should go down.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >From: Rich Gibson <rgibson@pipeline.com>
> >Reply-To: <ca-resisters@interversity.org>
> >Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 15:33:25 -0700
> >To: <ca-resisters@interversity.org>
> >Subject: [ca-resisters] San Diego UT on Prop 82
> >
> >
> >Prop 82: No, no, no
> >
> >Initiative is badly crafted, deceptively sold
> 
> George Sheridan
> Northside School
> Cool, California 95614