“Vulnerability” in the all-day/daycare propaganda war: One-third of kindergarten students unprepared, study finds (broken link). Sept 22 Vancouver Sun article.
Category: Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization
All-week daycare in East Germany—a mother tells of her own and her child’s story
24/7/365 available daycare is a goal of some daycare proponents. All-week daycare in East Germany—a mother tells of her own and her child’s story: September 2000. Karin Jaeckel. Fathers for Life - book excerpt (web): "Germany devours its children —…
Read More All-week daycare in East Germany—a mother tells of her own and her child’s story
Sept 8, 2010 Globe and Mail editorial—Proof before playtime (broken link)
Sept 8, 2010 Globe and Mail editorial—Proof before playtime (broken link). All day K promoters have not provided evidence for their claims.
Sept 7, 2010—CBC interview on BC Almanac on all-day Kindergarten
CBC interview on BC Almanac on all-day Kindergarten with Paul Kershaw of HELP and Helen Ward of Kids First. Kershaw crticizes Ward because she “doesn’t have a PhD” and says all-day K has “potential, IF…” (Go to minute 30:55 of…
Read More Sept 7, 2010—CBC interview on BC Almanac on all-day Kindergarten
New report by Ontario all-day-K man's organization regurgitates "$2-for $1 investment" cost-benefit non-peer reviewed fabrication (broken link)
Aug 30, 2010. Globe and Mail - article "Full-day kindergarten spending may deliver twice the returns: report" (broken link)Let's look at who is behind this media release and report: Atkinson Charitable Foundation (broken link)—Charles Pascal, Ontario's Early Learning Advisor and…
Sept 2010: Play-dates being outlawed in Ontario—state control of child-rearing ramps up
Aug 19, 2010: Play-dates being outlawed in Ontario—state control of child-rearing ramps up. Read this letter dated Aug 18, 2010 from the Ministry of Children and Youth Services: (download PDF here). And the response dated Aug 19, 2010 of the…
Read More Sept 2010: Play-dates being outlawed in Ontario—state control of child-rearing ramps up
Dr. Strangelove and Daycare: The RAND Corporation, the biggest “think tank” in the world, is funded by the US military and large corporations
Dr. Strangelove and Daycare: The RAND Corporation, the biggest “think tank” in the world, is funded by the US military and large corporations (broken link). It pushed “universal preschool” (broken link) in California. A new book, Soldiers of Reason: the…
Open letter demands full-day schooling for age 3-5 and daycare
Open letter demands full-day schooling for age 3-5 and daycare (broken link): the letter claiming disproven Utopian social and economic benefits for preschool and daycare is sponsored by maritime heiress Margaret McCain and signed by daycare lobby voices.
All-Day K Money Tree: Ontario government decides taxpayers must give millions to daycares to NOT provide daycare
All-Day K Money Tree: Ontario government decides taxpayers must give millions to daycares to NOT provide daycare. April 27, 2010 Letter from Ontario government to daycares. $51 million annually for not doing daycare for 4-5 year olds, plus millions more…
Biased Consultation
All five "Experts in the Field of Early Childhood Education" listed by the BC Government for the consultation are from HELP (Human Early Learning Partnership), including Hillel Goelman, HELP Director and author of the 2007 Vancouver Sun article describing and…
More organizations & academics misrepresenting Dr Heckman on the economic benefits of daycare, all day kindergarten, preschool (broken link)
Council on Early Child Development (founded by F Mustard, HELP’s C Hertzman President)World BankOECDFraser Mustard (broken link), Chair in Childhood Development at Alberta Children’s HospitalMisleading out of context quote (broken link):“Early childhood investments of high quality have lasting effects…. We…
Daycare Lobby Head is a Top Bureaucrat in BC’s Ministry of Children and Family Development
BC's Assistant Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Children and Family Development is Sandra Griffin. She is with the Integrated Quality Assurance Team (broken link).She was: Executive Director of the tax-funded daycare lobby group, the Child Care Federation of CanadaExecutive…
Read More Daycare Lobby Head is a Top Bureaucrat in BC’s Ministry of Children and Family Development
HELP Helping itself to Heckman
Government-Funded Daycare/All-Day K Promoters Lie When they Claim Nobel-Prize Economist Agrees with Them. Daycare and all-day kindergarten promoters including HELP and Charles Pascal & Fraser Mustard all say Nobel Prize Economist Dr James Heckman’s research supports their policy. This is…
Government-Funded Daycare/All-Day K Promoters Lie When they Claim Nobel-Prize Economist Agrees with Them
Ontario government adviser, Charles Pascal, and BC Government agency, Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), claim Dr James Heckman, Noble Prize Winner for Economics, supports their goal of universal daycare and all-day and earlier kindergarten. This is actually the opposite of…
Daycare system needs an urgent fix (broken link)
Daycare system needs an urgent fix (broken link): Mar 28, 2010 article in The Gazette talks about the Quebec daycare sponsorship scandal. Daycare operators are donating to political parties. In Ontario and BC, how much do the YMCA, CUPE, teachers…