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Originally Posted by Due
I think you are correct that people that put their kids in pre-k is better off than people who does not. I do not think it will help the society to put everyone in pre-k (free or paid), your kids and other kids have a head start because of the mentality in the home where the kids grow up.
People who put kids in pre-k is aware that education is important and / or they are busy professionals that can afford it. Typically both types of family would like to see their kids succeed in life hence they start out early.
You can help kids from troubled families to succeed in life by offering a more customized educational program followed by after-school activities that offer the stimulation and challenges they need to get a success feeling.
Offering free Pre-K and other benefits to parents who goes back to get a college degree would help both them and their kids.
I think free college would lower the high school dropout rate, I'm sure there is a lot of kids that see they have no future in college so they'll just drop out from high school if they found a cool gang or got some minimum paying job
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I agree with the pre-k thoughts. Pre-k itself likely has little to do with the kid's success rate it is likely more about the parents at home and how they work with the kid. Shitty parents tend to turn out shitty kids regardless of what is available to the kids.
As for free community college curbing the high school dropout rate, I'm not so sure about that. I know a few people who have dropped out of high school and none of them did so because they thought they had no future in college. They had a million other reasons and issues most of which were that they were from fucked up families and led fucked up lives.
What I think it might do is help those kids who graduate college and are unsure what they want to do, but know they don't want to spend money going to college find some sort of direction for their lives. It may also help encourage people to become welders, electricians, plumbers, mechanics etc because they can learn a trade for free.