New Hampshire Seeks to Pilot Online Pre-Schooling and Tries Again for Charters
New Hampshire’s Governor is a Trump-style extremist, Chris Sununu, whose father John advised the first President Bush. Sununu appointed Frank Edelblut as state commissioner of education. The state commissioner home-schooled his children and follows the ideology of Betsy DeVos. He thinks government money should go wherever children go, regardless of who gets the money. That’s called “Learning Everywhere.”
Edelblut is an extremist libertarian.
Now he wants to pilot online leaning for pre-schoolers. This is his response to the growing recognition of the value of early childhood education.
Not surprisingly, advocates for ECE are alarmed that sitting in front of a computer is being substituted for play, where children learn to cooperate with others and make things and use their imagination. One group said:
Kids aren’t meant to sit still in front of a screen. They use their whole bodies to learn, and they want and need to move. Let’s not forget that some of the essential CONTINUE READING: New Hampshire Seeks to Pilot Online Pre-Schooling and Tries Again for Charters | Diane Ravitch's blog