Mark Weis at Trust The Children writes about Why Pre-School Hurts Our Children.
His opening paragraph is:
"Even as the enrollment of children in kindergarten remains optional in most states, the daycare lobby and 'early learning' advocates would like to make preschool universal or mandatory on the presumption that pre-K programs promote the 'school readiness' of children. Yet a study by Lisa N. Hickman at the Ohio State University challenges their agenda, finding that children who attend daycare or preschool the year prior to kindergarten do not gain greater social or cognitive skills and in some measures end up lagging behind their peers who enjoy the attention of their parents exclusively." (I've added the bold.)
Here's an abstract of the study. Unfortunately the full report costs money to read.
Mark goes on to summarize the report.
I expect that as a group homeschoolers are very unlikey to dump their children off at preschool. This study implies that part of the reason children who have been homeschooled do so well may lie with events that happened before they started their "normal school" activities. Keeping young children home with their families has long term benefits.
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