Judging by the results we get from “professional” teachers, why should we throw more money down that rathole? At least with military spending, you get quality for the money; the best in the world, even without a union! teacher training is garbage, judging from the performance of your charges. And the idea that all that stands between the children and a life in prison is YOU getting more government money for your incompetent results is insulting. Everyone knows that the people with the lowest GPAs in college tend to become teachers and you have succeeded in making sure to add the barriers to prevent other, more competent people to enter the field. An extra year of college, lots of diversity crap and a politicized union that gets rich off of its members while keeping actual teacher wages low just guarantees more of the same as smarter people say “no thanks”. Public schools have corrupted themselves with leftwing garbage and it’s no wonder that more and more parents are homeschooling and producing educated young adults that leave public school students in the dust. Which just goes to prove the incompetence of public education in stark relief.

And as far a needing both parents to work, most of that is optional if people actually wanted to do it, despite the economically illiterate claim of “hard times”. It’s called priorities and delayed gratification. Just ask me; I pulled it off. I worked and my wife stayed home and we budgeted accordingly. We didn’t live in the best house and we didn’t drive new cars, nor did our kids get the 100.00 sneakers or other useless expensive crap that other kids “must have”. Oh and ‘It takes a village” is just collectivist nonsense.

Cheap shot wh. What do you know about anyone else’s “hand?” You sure as **** don’t know mine!

Real character shows up when one can take personal responsibility regardless of the “hand” you are “dealt.” Even better, when you can learn from your own past behaviors.

Oh, and if it gives you any comfort, I have benefited from public assistance in my lifetime, and have repaid that amount 10,000 times over in income taxes. It’s supposed to be a help up, not a lifestyle.

To me, reading about how there were numerous issues in the past with the kid, and the University not releasing these incidents due to privacy concerns, suggests to me that there was a disconnect between the University’s style, and the mother’s. She said she discussed every incident with the child, but it seems like nothing changed. The behavior is normal 4 year old behavior; the problem is that normal four year old behavior is rarely attractive when it’s not your child.

Not knowing more about the incidents, I can’t say where the disconnect occurred.
The school may have needed the parent to set limits on acceptable behavior at school that the parents were not willing to set, but the parents weren’t the ones who had to deal not only with one 4 year old, but 20. They also weren’t the ones who had to worry about liability issues if something happens to one kid while the teacher is dealing with another’s tantrum.

It does seem to me, regardless of one’s opinion’s on child-rearing, that a smaller group setting or one on one attention from a nanny or full-time parent would have been appropriate here.

I’m sure the pre-school would have discussed this with the parents after the first 30 incidents and suggested that the child might be better off someplace else, but given that Kyle was still there, the parents either could not or would not make other arrangements for him. So the daycare waited until he gave them a reason to kick him out permanently.

Calling in the University Police was ridiculous. But so was the daycare needing a reason not to take him anymore, instead of being able to say to the parent – he’s not ready to be here everyday, and you need to make other arrangements.

Who is “they”? I don’t have children and have never paid attention to elementary school or day care since I myself left them behind, but is what is being left unsaid here that black “professional educators” are inhabiting this strata of society and dumbing down the bright kids under their control to their own level?

One of the commenters above commented that all elementary level educators are incompetent. It was my own experience that 90% of the administrators and teachers at the high school level, too, were equally backwards and unenlightened, but then I think that mileage may vary depending upon location and tax base of whatever school system you’re in.

Currently I’m equally jaundiced about the competence and intelligence level of our colleges and universities too.

As I said, though, I don’t have children and am deliriously delighted about that fact, so it’s not my problem other than having to face repeated requests and demands for funding to make sure that the children the rest of you have spawned can read and write and not go on a shooting spree.