Jaden Wallis

Universal pre-k has few benefits concerning preparation to ease young

children into elementary school. However, why should universal pre-k be made a
mandatory event every four year old drags themselves out of bed in the morning to
go to just for the sake to get used to school? Does the other 13 years of school
everyone is required to attend not ease you enough into it? Sure these children
would possibly only go a few days out of a month, but that should not make it a
national requirement. Should it not be the parents decision whether these children
get extra schooling? According to an experienced and educated college researcher,
Raising the age of children who enter kindergarten is just another way to force
them to be ready. Parents are advocates for their children and need to make the best
possible decision for them.(Page 6-7,Perceptions of Parents, Preschool Teachers,
and Kindergarten Teachers Regarding School Readiness). Ms. Erin Marie Reding
writes this in words for the State University of New York showing many parents
viewpoints and validating my previous questions as outrageous suggestions.
Therefore, the slightly helpful but unneccessary mandated pre-k idea should be up
to the parents of these children.

Reding, Erin Marie, "Perceptions of Parents, Preschool Teachers, and Kindergarten Teachers Regarding
School Readiness" (2004). Education and Human Development Master's eses. Paper 590.