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What the unholy fucking hell.

Where none of the people running these schools ever kids? Did they just magically appear from some portal from another, sad, apathetic, dimension? Or where they spawned out of eggs laid by depressed lizard people?

My school had 2 recesses, one 15 minute morning and one 30 minutes at lunch. They were absolutely crucial to social emotional development, and to just being outside.

6 hours of focused learning for 5 year olds? What type of massive idiocy is that. Ask the brightest college students how many hours of classes they sign up for, and unless you are talking to a crazy person, the answer is 4, with 3 being preferred by most (and considered a full course load!).

There is oodles of literature on how many hours a day a person can sit down and learn. 6 hours inside for a kid is wildly outside of recommendations.

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It is difficult to overstate the intentional underinvestment in public education by conservative states in the US. Quite simply, conservatives see public education as liberal indoctrination and would prefer it not exist. For example,

* Project 2025 calls for eliminating the Office of Head Start, which would lead to the closure of Head Start child care programs that serve about 833,000 low-income children each year.

* In place of a federal Education Department, the it calls for widespread public education funding that goes directly to families, as part of its overarching goal of “advancing education freedom.” This is to enable the public funding of private religious schools which do not have regulatory oversight.

* The federal school meals program should be scaled back to ensure that only children from low-income families are receiving the benefit.