Is Early Childhood Education Really Necessary?

YES! Here are some highlights of an article in today's Kalamazoo Gazette - click here to read the whole thing.

"I believe that early-childhood education is so important that I'd be willing to fund it by ending public education at age 16," and shift the savings to educating 3- and 4-year-olds, said Ron Fuller, superintendent of the Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency. "That's pretty controversial. But I feel early education is so critical."


"The only question is when you're going to deal with kids. You can deal with their needs in a profound way when they're 3, 4 and 5. Or you can wait until they're 16 or 17, or 25 and 26, and they need to be incarcerated at an extraordinary cost," Rice said. "You have to view preschool not as a cost, but as an investment."

Give yourselves a pat on the back for enrolling your child in Kindermusik - an wonderful start to early-childhood education and a significant investment in your child's future.