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The next time we're about to spend billions of dollars to go to war, we should just invest it free pre-k for every kid. My wife's been a 1st grade teacher for a few years, and she's seen the difference between the kids who've had early pre-eduction, and those that had almost no stimulation whatsoever. She said she can always spot the troublemaker on the first day, and they usually fall into the suspected "no-stimulation" group.
Instead of being all about putting band aids on every problem, we should focus on putting kids on a good path before they even get to elementary school. There's always going to be lost causes, but we'd end up with less kids getting suspended, and even better --- less inmates in the prisons. Not trying to say preschool is going to create some Uptopia, but its a better long term investment than kajillion dollar fighter jet program that's mostly just a cash cow for contractors to get paid for having their thumbs up their asses.
Conservatives should be all about this idea, but they have the "every man for himself" thing to deal with, so why worry about other people's kids? They might think its a good idea when one of those kids grows up and shoots him in the head for his Mercedes.
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