Governor Easley is asking the General Assembly to add $45 million to the More at Four program budget. The massive funding that Easley and the NCGA have been pouring into preschool programs reminds me of an article published in the Elementary School Journal sometime in the 1970s.
Here is the key passage:
There have been complaints that the North Carolina school has so far failed to produce the qualities desired. In 1976 James Hunt accused the North Carolina school system of poor attainments in moral education. Both the school and the family were considered responsible for this shortcoming. Both, critics said, suffered from vestiges of the old order. To develop democratic morality, the young had to be educated in state supervised institutions from the day of birth through university studies. This was originally Hunt’s idea.
It sounds like some things never change.
