Government Pre-K Means Government Indoctrination

The breathtakingly expensive Democratic Party plan to use a rare budgetary trick known as “reconciliation” to sneak through a massive change in how children are raised in this country deserves more attention than the mere shrugs and acquiescence it is getting. Republicans in Congress, and whatever sane Democrats remain, should think carefully about what happens next if we finally get the much-touted “universal pre-K,” or to be a bit more descriptive, “federal management of childhood starting at age 3.”

Recall what Silicon Valley just did to us by supplying us with tantalizing, addictive products for no cost. We’ve just now realized that “no cost” turned out to be a very high price indeed. Google, noticing that you would leave the search engine to browse the Internet, came up with a browser, Chrome, so it could track how you browse. But what about following you when you’re not online? Welcome, Android, the OS for a phone that, as soon as you go online, uploads a complete picture of everywhere you’ve been that day.

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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The breathtakingly expensive Democratic Party plan to use a rare budgetary trick known as “reconciliation” to sneak through a massive change in how children are raised in this country deserves more attention than the mere shrugs and acquiescence it is getting. Republicans in Congress, and whatever sane Democrats remain, should think carefully about what happens next if we finally get the much-touted “universal pre-K,” or to be a bit more descriptive, “federal management of childhood starting at age 3.”

Recall what Silicon Valley just did to us by supplying us with tantalizing, addictive products for no cost. We’ve just now realized that “no cost” turned out to be a very high price indeed. Google, noticing that you would leave the search engine to browse the Internet, came up with a browser, Chrome, so it could track how you browse. But what about following you when you’re not online? Welcome, Android, the OS for a phone that, as soon as you go online, uploads a complete picture of everywhere you’ve been that day.