In 1975, the Idaho Legislature established public kindergarten. Actively campaigning against the idea was one state Rep.
C. L. “Butch” Otter. He worked both the House and Senate education committees, arguing that state-funded kindergarten would cut into established private kindergarten business and that there was no proven need for kids to go to school at a younger age. … Otter recently told one early childhood education advocate that 30 years ago, the “experts” told him kindergarten was going to help raise kids out of poverty and solve various social ills, and now the same arguments are being made for pre-K. But arguing about K vs. pre-K misses the point. The point is that the supple little brains of toddlers and preschoolers need to be nurtured, and Idaho, researchers argue, does not do a good job making sure that happens/
Nathaniel Hoffman
, Boise Weekly.
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