Infrastructure Hurts the Poor
It also follows research suggesting that the massive increase in Government funding for daycare provision over the past decade, aimed at helping children to progress more quickly, has in fact hindered their intellectual development as well as exacerbating their behaviour problems.
Huh, who knew? Oh thats right; I did.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:37 am
What’s in my future?
August 28th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
if you want better kids you need better parents. That money would have been better spent on parenting/child development classes.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:21 am
I am probably not making myself popular here with quoting the old Jewish saying “If the mom smells like onions, and the dad smells like garlic, the daughter can’t smell like roses”, implying that, with everything, there is a hereditary component involved in the development of psychological traits, in this case, intelligence, or broader, cognitive development, if that is the measure applied in the study you are referring to. State funding of daycares, state funding of early-start programs, state funding of parenting programs, will not resolve the problem of these sorts. This however, does not mean that those programs should be stopped, and it does not mean, either, that I’m radical with my thoughts on genetics. On the contrary, if such programs provide the kids with chances to develop a healthy personality, a secure self-esteem, every pound has been worthwhile spending - even though they did not turn out to be geniuses on the cognitive level. So, if other measures were applied to determine the success of programs, it would be easier for us to make a more thorough statement.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Its hard to read what you are getting at bettina. You seem to be against it and then you are for it. Not sure how to take your comment. Clarify if you would please.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:49 am
I am AGAINST daycare personally, I would never send my kids into daycare, neither do I personally “like” people who decide to give their kids away at the age of seven weeks, but IF we talk about the facilitation of day-cares, which is a different story, I am objecting to the simplicistic measurement of “cognitive development” as the ONLY means to determine the success of such programs, cause I got the impression that you were saying that “oh shit, now the state wasted all that money, and the kids are even getting dumber”. No, my measure of success is whether the kids are provided with a solid developmental foundation in such daycare, and cognitive development is just one aspect of this. So, I would not say that these programs have necessarily FAILED. Got me? No.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
You think the measure didnt get the effect. What effect are you looking for?