It’s the free, stupid! (No offense, Nathan.)

I just wanted to respond briefly to Nathan’s post from yesterday on whether it was important for a 3-year-old to go to school.

I have no ideas about the long-term educational impact of schooling for toddlers, and truth be told, I don’t really care. Right now, it seems enough to me that JP enjoys school and clearly seems to get something out of it, even if that “something” is only how to play nice (and sometimes not so nice) with the other kiddies.

I also don’t know that I’m interested in the differences, as stated by Nathan, between the “deep educational experience” of universal pre-K and the apparently less-deep experience of daycare. Maybe I’m too shallow to know from that deep, as my (fictional) Uncle Morty always used to say.

But I do know one thing about pre-K that I like a whole lot better than daycare. It’s one of my favorite things in the whole world, beloved of my people, and worshipped by all right-thinking people everywhere.

Know what it is, Nathan?

It’s called The Free, my friend. And me likey. How about you? Or do you prefer to have your children receive their shallow educational experience and pay for it?

Yes, I’m being a dick. But can someone please do some ‘splaining?