Another Piece of
Evidence
That Scribbling and
Doodling
Beat Taxpayer-Provided
Preschool
(3-4-09)
Footnote to the rant I just posted against
additional taxpayer-provided pre-k programs:
The first thing I noticed in the picture posted
with this article below was the crummy way the person was holding the pencil.
See? All wrong. You can't write very well or fast with that pencil grip. And
when you can't form letters well or quickly, you can't RECOGNIZE them well or
quickly when they appear before you in printed text. Hence: dyslexia . . .
dysgraphia . . . attention deficit disorder / hyperactivity. . . .
The second thing I noticed, though, was the
scientific proof that what seems to be "aimless" scribbling and
doodling is a actually a clear benefit to thinking skills . . . concentration .
. . attention . . . learning.
Once again, reality is debunking the notion that
taxpayers need to be providing free pre-kindergarten programs for little kids
in school. Noooooo, we don't. They'd be much, much better off scribbling and
doodling and playing on their own, at home, for the most part, during early
childhood.
And I believe the workaholic-style, programmed
pre-k is contributing immensely to our problems with kids labeled as having
"Attention Deficit Disorder / Hyperactivity."
So we're not only being asked to pay for still
more "free" pre-k in our public schools that doesn't work and
actually hampers the vast majority of the kids in their academic progress . . .
but that taxpayer-provided free pre-k is actually setting up MORE kids to have
LEARNING DISABILITIES!!!!!
In these taxpayer-provided "free"
pre-k programs and early primary classrooms, kids are NOT being taught good
pencil-handling and handwriting skills. They are NOT being encouraged to
scribble and doodle when they are itty bitty, since those are so cheap and you
don't need a college graduate supervising such "lowly" little-kid
activities.
Therefore, by doing stuff that's far more
expensive than is needed and actually distorts little kids' early academic
experiences, we are wasting tax dollars, dumbing down learning, and socking
ourselves with a giant attention problem.
Remember: we humans are multisensory. The
non-handwriting, non-phonics crowd that has charge of our public school system
is literally handicapping our kids by ignoring that fact.
Take a look:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1882127,00.html
