TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana’s state school superintendent is pushing for mandatory kindergarten in the state.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick tells the (Terre Haute) Tribune-Star that while the Legislature provided additional funding for pre-K this year, some children may not follow up with kindergarten because state law doesn’t require attendance.
McCormick says 7,000 children in Indiana aren’t enrolled in kindergarten. She says they may face many disadvantages when they start formal schooling.
Legislation that would’ve required parents to send their children to kindergarten has been introduced in recent years but hasn’t advanced in the Republican-dominated Legislature.
The Education Commission of the States says Indiana is among 16 states that don’t require school attendance until age 7. Fifteen states require children to attend kindergarten at age 5 or before enrolling in first grade.
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This is all about money and has nothing to do with the children or anything else. Bureaucrats creating jobs and making us pay for it. They only get government money (our taxes) for children enrolled in school.That is what this is about. Our schools are a mess and adding more children for more time in school won’t fix anything. It will just add to the chaos that is our government run schools. I find it interesting that we are to believe these poor children will be behind. Sounds to me like the teachers just don’t want to teach. How did all of us grow up with out being complete illiterate dummies? Remember in the 70’s we were going into a new ice age and were all going to starve to death? Remember when Al Gore (Moron) said by 2015 we would all start dying off due to global warming? This is kind of like that…Pure crap! The worst part is people read this crap and believe it!
Yeah, follow the money…and the agenda. Mandatory government indoctrination and control of your children at an ever earlier age.