Obama Admin. to Spend $500 million on Initiative to "Deal with" Kindergarteners Who Can't Sit Still

The Obama Administration has planned a new, $500,000,000 project:  an "early learning initiative designed to deal with children as young as five who can’t sit still in a kindergarten classroom."

What does the Administration mean by "deal with?"  It is not clarified, but in the near future it is assumed that kids will be studied extensively.

According to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who has performed various studies on elementary-aged children, a new study is desperately needed because:

“A number of children [in my experiments] were missing the social and developmental skills which would allow them to sit in a classroom or play with others or listen to a teacher for any period of time.”

In other words, instead of saving the $500,000,000 or using it to help people effected by natural disasters in the United States, the government is going to do an extensive study on why five-year-olds fidget.

Apparently need to be dealt with

Big Government continues:

One of the likely unintended consequences of this study will be that blame will be placed—not on the curriculum of Kindergarten classrooms or on teachers and administrators who have unrealistic expectations for children—but squarely on the brains of those children who do not meet their requirements for “Kindergarten readiness”. Increasing numbers of normal children will be diagnosed with disorders such as ADHD, and then prescribed medications to make them sit still, shut up, and listen. This would tragically absolve the school of its responsibility in the problem.

And what about those children who really are deficient or behind in their development? The government can save their time and money on this conundrum, too. Parents are primarily responsible for training their children. Part of that training includes regulating diet, sleep, and exercise, essential foundations for proper brain functioning. The other essential part of that training includes discipline: creating a template of relating to adult authority that requires reasonable obedience and respect. Far too many parents are ignorant, lax, or neglectful in this regard.

Solution number two: parents need to step up their efforts to train their children. It isn’t the government’s job to prepare children for their education. If the government needs to do anything, it’s to support parental rights and encourage economic conditions that allow more parents to stay home with their children so that they can do their job raising and training their children.

I’ll take that $500 million. I can put it to much better use.

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