Comments about: Waterville to be site of region's first Educare center for kids

AUGUSTA -- The idea is innovative: Provide quality education to children in the earliest years of life, from...
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Spice of Waterville, ME
Sep 30, 2008 10:01 AM
How will these babies be transported? School buses equipped with infant seats? Nursemaids to accompany them throughout the day?report abuse
Spice of Waterville, ME
Sep 30, 2008 9:49 AM
How are they going to teach a child that has not yet been born?? Prenatal = Before birth.
All this $$ spent on early education because parents aren't suitable to teach children between the ages of birth to five...Yet, once they start formal education, the teachers send all the school work to be done at home and these same parents are expected to force their kids to do the school work that the teachers should have been teaching while the kids were in school.

If parents aren't capable of teaching their pre-school children, why are teachers expecting these same parents to teach them from grades 5 - 12?

Waterville now has Headstart and the Home for Little Wander's to assist with early childhood development. Are these programs failures? If so, eliminate them! Programs that do not show successes should not be supported.report abuse
silence dogood of augusta, ME
Sep 30, 2008 7:39 AM
$10,000,000.00 to help 166 children. With just plane publik edukaution I figure that to be $60,000.00 per child.

Seems like a high tuition rate to me.report abuse
Govt2Big of Randolph, ME
Sep 30, 2008 6:00 AM
This smells like another pet project for the Baldacci Administration, and will probably result in more bonds or tax increases for funding assistance.report abuse

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