Preschool Is Not Mandatory For Children - 1301 Words

When most people think about preschool, they think about a group of 3-4 year olds coloring or playing as teacher watches them waiting for their parental guardian to pick them up after work. For some of us through we did not get to experience preschool, while we aren’t any less productive for it, we could have possibly achieved more with it. Preschool is not mandatory for any child to attend, many studies have been conducted which show the benefits of high quality early education. One of those benefits is the acquisition of a new language. Parents should be fighting to make universal preschool for their children and we should be adding a foreign language to the curriculum. While we are looking for the answer to question on what does a good†¦show more content†¦While having the opportunity to take a foreign language is a great thing, we should not be waiting to post elementary school to teach it. A foreign language should be taught when the mind is in its language acquisition stage. Foreign language is more than common thing here in the United States of America. We are culturally diverse nation, filled with many different nationalities. According to Carla McClure, an education writer, she argues the benefits of early second language acquisition. She references numerous studies, one being the correlation between second language learning and improved mental process. As well as, mentioning that children who starting learning a second language before middle school are more like to speak the language fluently. However, not everyone would agree with the idea of universal free preschool. Hollee Saville, a licensed family childcare provider who has a master’s in Early Childhood Education, argues that early education should not be viewed as a one-size fits-all model, and that we are robbing our children of their childhoods. She uses the examples of Oklahoma, who has had universal pre-K since 1988, and Georgia, who’s universal pre-K has been around since 1995, have had their 4th graders tested by National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) which they were found to be below grade level proficiency. In addition, she argues that parents should have to pay for the cost