Mandatory Kindergarten?
Or at least that’s what the project for the new law of education, recently agreed upon by the minister of education and leaders of the major teachers’ unions here, says…
Back in the communist days, school started at the age of six. Then, immediately after the revolution, the age was moved up to seven. Then, a few years ago, there were discussions about first grade starting once again at the age of six, but what actually happened was the addition of an extra, mandatory, “preparation” year before the actual first grade. So the first grade still started at the age of seven, but children had to go to school starting at the age of six.
Now they’re making it even worse, by making kindergarten mandatory, starting at the age of three. At this rate I’m expecting them to take the baby right out of the mother’s belly and strap him or her into a chair, in front of an encyclopedia… There was actually a drawing in a newspaper a while back, when talks about this new law first surfaced, with a baby reading the Encyclopedia Britannica in the crib.
You know, there are those things called parents which should have the most important role in the early years of childhood, not other relatives or babysitters, and certainly not institutions, be they public or private! This is simply yet another attempt at creating robots, molded according to whatever projects the government has for the population!
Of course, it can’t happen starting immediately, since there aren’t enough places in the existing kindergartens even for the children that parents want to send there, which makes the law even more idiotic.
I for one strongly feel that such a thing as kindergartens shouldn’t even exist! If you can’t raise a kid yourself, don’t have one! But of course the government doesn’t think beyond today, and their solution to the aging population and strained welfare system is to encourage people to have more children. They’re also extremely worried that Romania’s population is steadily dropping, instead of wondering how to make it drop faster, since overpopulation affects the entire world. When the human population must obviously drop to about a third of it’s current levels, that means it must drop everywhere and everything counts!
I’m fuming about so many things lately that I think I’m going to blow a fuse. Or another fuse that is… Expect an entry along the lines of “If I were a god…” soon…
