Each spring, a group of editors from our parent company, ECM Publishers, spends a day at the state capitol in St. Paul, meeting with the governor, legislative leaders and other state officials.
We come prepared with our questions, and we learn a lot.
This year’s agenda included a discussion of pre-school education. It has come to the forefront for a variety of reasons.
One is that the state currently has a projected surplus of $1.9 billion, so some think we should spend it on preschoolers. Another reason is that a spate of stories have been in the news in recent months of children being murdered or otherwise abused by their adult caregivers. A third is that Minnesota has one of the largest achievement gaps in the country between the middle and upper classes and the lower income classes.
The growing realization is that many children are being permanently damaged in the earliest years of their life, and we are all paying for it when their dysfunction plays out in adulthood.
[For more of this story, written by Tom West, go to http://dairylandpeach.com/2015...about-bad-parenting/]
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