Should state governments provide preschool for all?

I love Pre-k and what it has done for my kids, builds social skills, and readiness for kindergarden. I currenlty have my 4 yr old in pre-k and thankfully so he was diagnosed with a speech problem. Imagine had he not gone to school this problem would have been undetected till kindergarden. He is now pronouncing all his ending sounds and is understandable to others. I am fully aware of the deficit this country is in but not having pre-k is not what should be cut. I have paid and continue to pay for my kids to be in pre-k which some months were rough but our kids our the future and I want my kids to get as much education as they can because they are our future. My older was in a private pre-school, I wanted him to go to school across from where I work so I had to have him in a lottery and cross my fingers that my kid was chosen, well he was and the teacher made a comment " She liked getting kids that were already in pre-school they were more prepared and the trasnisition was easier." I felt good that I sacrificed to have him in school. I have my 4 yr old in pre-school and he has just blossemed, he was so shy always wanting only to be around me. (that was hard seeing as I am a working mom) but he got through it and now I will be doing the same thing putting him in a lottery to have him at the same school as my older son.(hopefully they will chose his name) Like I stated before I am a working mom, if I am going to pay someone to watch my child I'd rather it be a school at least I know that he is in a learning envrionment. The STATE needs to look at other programs that they fund before thinking of cutting any pre-K ones.

Yes! This is such an important part of getting a head-start for all children's school success. I am a parent and a foster/ adoptive parent. I have not had one child who did not benefit from the preschool program. It sets up the children... and parents for early success as well as teaching much needed social skills. For the kids and the parents!

This whole thing about universal preK is a moot point. Tax revenue is going to be WAY WAY down next year, those nasty bailouts are not going to go away, and frankly we don't have the finances for this kind of stuff.

trooper,

I've never seen a better phrasing to my child rearing philosophy. Thank you.