Tuesday, September 22, 2009

*Legislative Alert* Vote on Mandatory 5-K

Today the WI State Senate will vote on Senate Bill 89 - making 5 year-old kindergarten mandatory. The Assembly version already passed in the Assembly. Contact your WI State Senator and tell him/her to oppose this bill!

This bill is anti-parents rights and anti-school choice. Your child could write, read and be a sonnet composing prodigy. But if they haven’t attended 5-K they can be denied admittance to first grade. THIS IS A LEAD INTO MANDATORY 4-K!

SB89
AB119 (companion bill the passed the Assembly)

While the bill purports to make these programs optional, history shows us that there will be subsequent pressure to make them mandatory, universal, and funded with taxpayer dollars. Many education experts have concluded that beginning a child’s formal education too early may actually result in burnout and poor scholastic performance later. Lowering the compulsory attendance age erodes the authority of parents who are in the best position to determine when their child’s formal education should begin. Another significant impact of expanding the compulsory attendance age would be an inevitable tax increase to pay for more classroom space and teachers to accommodate the additional students compelled to attend public schools. When California raised the age of compulsory attendance, unwilling students were so disruptive that new schools had to be built just to handle them and their behavior problems, all at the expense of the taxpayer. - HSLDA

Other Links:
WEAC SUPPORTS THE BILL

Compulsory Attendance Age Legislation

Boots and Sabers

Clinton's Hostile Preschool Takeover

Hillary Clinton Indoctrination

Reason Foundation