Couples don't need two incomes and they don't need government baby-sitting services

All-day kindergarten is a gift to parents who want baby sitters and to teachers who want more work. It's a feel-good, government-paid, baby-sitting, make-more-government-work project, compliments of Newark property owners.

That's been my thesis all along, most recently in this journal at this link.

A reader of that journal entry asked: "For parents who support this (all-day kindergarten) because they 'must' work full time outside of the home what is your response?"

For the one or two other persons who might care what I think about that, here it is:

First, there are few, if any, couples that must have two incomes. The reason I know this is because my wife and I made it with me working outside the home while she worked inside. I never had great paydays, and some months during those years we never had any paydays, but we spent only what we could afford and kept our appetites under control. Nevertheless, we raised three babies to adulthood. If we did it - being no more blessed with brains than anyone else - any couple can do it.

Second, even if both parents think they must work (because they will not control their appetites) it is their own responsibility to pay for baby-sitting services, not their fellow citizen-taxpayers.

And third, the kind of education a small child needs is not from teachers and books. It is not from strangers. It is not from society. It is from home and family.

The expectations by the state for little children to perform at at a government-set level is pure crap. It is artificial crap manufactured by bureaucrats and teachers for the greater glory and make-work of bureaucrats and teachers.

My own education began with first grade at age six. Except for the increasing interference by government upon my life - and the associated costs thereto - I haven't done badly.