Rep. Mark Green to 4 Year Old Kids: Shape Up or Ship Out
From today’s Journal Sentinel feature called “issue of the day” where they toss a slow pitch softball to each of the candidates for Governor.
The pitch: Candidates were asked if the $62 million state subsidy for 4-year-old kindergarten programs offered by some local school districts should be continued.
Here’s Rep. Mark Green’s response:
“We’ve been funding four-year-old kindergarten for over 20 years, but during that time we have never tested to ensure the current structure of the program is adequately preparing our children for the next step in their education. … If four-year-old kindergarten isn’t making our children more competitive, then we should look at channeling that funding into other measures that will accomplish that very important and necessary goal.”
This tells you everything you need to know about Republicans and education.
No children are safe from their attempts to privatize schools through the testing trojan horse, even pre-schoolers.
Rep. Mark Green thinks it’s just not enough to get kids early access to schooling - which every study in the world has said has huge benefits - they should be TESTED on how many digits between 1 and 5 they know and what coloring crayons they’re using to scribble with.
What would a potential Gov. Green want after that? Head start funding cut if two year olds aren’t potty trained yet?
Seriously. Testing four year olds for how competative they are!?!
If it weren’t so ridiculous that this man wants to be your next Governor Wisconsin, we could all share a big laugh.
October 18, 2006 12:42 pm 
; ?>/images/feed-icon-16x16.gif){kind=icon}