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Evidence to sustain all-day kiddy-garten agenda is desperately lacking
The Vancouver Sun – September 18, 2010
Universal program fails to address real needs in education
By Andrea Mrozek
Why the incessant chatter that all-day kindergarten will save us money? Minister of Education Margaret MacDiarmid wrote recently about this great investment with “limitless returns for the future of our province and our economy.”
Limitless returns. Really?
New ChrGov video commentary: Kindergarten child abuse
We have posted a new ChristianGovernance video commentary here. It is another commentary on the abusive nature of government schools.
A Globe and Mail report on American research shows what all loving parents who have not become slaves to “experts” already knew, which is that there are hundreds of thousands of misdiagnoses of ADHD every year. They observe that the youngest children are most likely to be misdiagnosed. This is a terrifying prospect in a province that has just introduced all-day kindergarten. It is naive in the extreme to think that your children are safe in government schools.
ADHD – Outrageous child abuse exposed; over-diagnosis drugs more children
The Globe and Mail – Aug. 17, 2010
ADHD: Parents of kids born later in year face tough decision Research suggests immaturity is confused with disorder – and many children could be misdiagnosed
By Tralee Pearce
The youngest children in a kindergarten class are much more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder than their oldest peers, according to two U.S. research studies. The discrepancy would account for about a million misdiagnoses in the United States.