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RUSH: Judy in Tampa, you\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Great to talk to you. I\u2019m a big fan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I kind of did a double-take. I don\u2019t know if it was this week or last week when you were talking about preschool, universal preschool initiative that I think Hillary was pushing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that it was indoctrination, and that may be the case with the universal model, but I think you also said it was like baby-sitting, and preschool, there\u2019s nothing to back up that there\u2019s any advantage with preschool, and actually there is. There are studies —<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re talking four-year-olds here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Excuse me?<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re talking four-year-olds.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, but, you know, there is research to say that 85% of social, intellectual, and psychological development occurs before the age of five.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whose research? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t have it, but I could get it for you if you want it. I can\u2019t do it right this minute.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But based on that, there have been longitudinal studies that show that — what I\u2019m trying to get at here is there\u2019s another way of looking at this, and there is a business case for supporting pre-K not for a universal model, which I agree with you can be very problematic —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but that\u2019s what we were talking about.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, okay.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s what Hillary wants. Add another year of school. Look, the problem is not that we\u2019re not taking care of our four-year-olds right, it\u2019s by the time they get to the second, third grade, too many can\u2019t read and so what we\u2019re going to do instead of fix it, ‘Oh, let\u2019s add another year of school, and let\u2019s put the federal government in charge of it.\u2019 I use baby-sitting as a means of sort of in a flippant away, attacking this, because they want to get hold of these kids and indoctrinate them, because exactly your research is exactly right, that\u2019s precisely when all kinds of psychological and intellectual development is taking place that we don\u2019t see.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. But could I tell you this, that there is another business case for this, and businesses are wanting to get involved in helping disadvantaged kids who are not making it to the school system, not making it into the workforce, they\u2019re not contributing to the tax base, they\u2019re becoming criminals. There\u2019s a longitudinal study, a couple of them, that are very respected now showing high quality pre-K for disadvantaged kids does have very good —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, Mrs. Clinton cited that —<\/p>\n

CALLER: She cited it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mrs. Clinton cites it, you know, that\u2019s —<\/p>\n

CALLER: But why let her use the study? Why not use the study more for a business case and for a tax base case. There are business interests. Why let her get the issue?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The reason why is because even if it\u2019s thought by experts, quote, unquote, that doing something like this would be food for these four-year-olds, it ain\u2019t going to be good if the feds run it. It isn\u2019t going to be good if Hillary Clinton\u2019s federal government runs it, and that was my point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, well, then what I\u2019m saying is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are the parents for, for crying out loud?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, but then what I\u2019m saying is why let Hillary take this issue? There are business owners, there\u2019s a big movement among businesses to work with these initiatives to target just —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well hey, hey, hey — commercial break, commercial break, hang on. We\u2019ll be right back with you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We go back to Judy in Tampa. Judy, just so you don\u2019t misunderstand me on this, I don\u2019t have any agreement that daycare and pre-K and all it is can help disadvantaged kids, to get them into elementary schools, so that by the time the kid enters a public school, he can\u2019t read add grade level; by the name of he reaches eighth grade he gets worse in high school and we end up having remedial classes in college. What\u2019s the difference at age four and age five when we start in kindergarten? The problem is not there. The problem is happening later on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So the thing is the problems happen later on because they don\u2019t get the good foundation, and it isn\u2019t just getting remediation in college. It\u2019s getting more criminal activity. It\u2019s getting people who are not making any money, not getting into the workforce. There\u2019s more and more competition. These days kids don\u2019t have a chance and Head Start is not cutting it. There\u2019s getting to be more and more emphasis on pre-K. It\u2019s not going away.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re missing the whole point. I\u2019ll accept your premise. Whatever good is done in pre-K — four, five years of age — is going to be undone by the way the public schools are run. It\u2019s not my opinion here. It\u2019s happening. The dropout rate is sky high, particularly among Hispanics and African-Americans in New York and Los Angeles. You could start with them at another age two!<\/p>\n

CALLER: But these kids who are dropping out have not had pre-K advantage, as far as I know, or have they?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It wouldn\u2019t matter. You can have all the advantages — this is my theory.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can have all the advantage in the world at age four. By the time they get in the second and third grade, that\u2019s when it starts falling apart, for some reason.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There are studies saying that it doesn\u2019t fall apart. That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. What I\u2019m saying is, it\u2019s worth looking into, and what I\u2019m saying is why not…?<\/p>\n

RUSH: How can there be studies that say it doesn\u2019t fall apart when we haven\u2019t done it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they have done it. I mean, they have done it on a small scale, and the thing is, it\u2019s been —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s anecdotal. This is how stuff gets rammed down our throats.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s not anecdotal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is how tax increases and expanded government get rammed down our throat, and the dirty little insinuation here is that parents can\u2019t do this —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Only trained specialists from your friendly government can handle something this major.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What I\u2019m saying is this isn\u2019t going away, and if you let Hillary take this, you\u2019re more likely — instead of taking this, looking at it seriously and try to turn it into more of a business model —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sadly, it isn\u2019t going away, precisely because more people in this country don\u2019t have the guts to stand up and accept their own responsibilities as parents. They\u2019re too eager to farm it off and do look at it as baby-sitting, and that is what I meant. Government will take and grab every aspect of life it can, if you let them. I know you keep talking about businesses do this and businesses having an interest in this. Well, let\u2019s let businesses run all the schools, then. Let\u2019s just turn the whole thing over to the private sector! Let\u2019s do that. I guarantee the results will be better than what we\u2019re getting now on an overall basis. I\u2019m glad you called. Thanks much for holding through the break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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