Kathy Silva from Oxford and her team have produced reams and reams of peer reviewed research examining the success of these early years programmes in the US and UK and internationally the evidence is pretty solidly in favour of having them, even if your child's playground has shrunk a bit. (Can you people not look beyond the ends of your bloody noses, I was left thinking, after reading your extraordinarily self-centred post disguised as social concern. Forgive my bluntness but I am getting frustrated with this sort of lazy thinking on MN).
Does he think people just make up evidence for fun? Trial programmes for the sake of it? That people have nothing better to do?
These tossers are incapable of critical thinking in the analytical sense and like cushions, in that their opinions hold the shape of the last bum to have sat in them - Hirsh, Marx, mad people from the 1930s ... we have been taken over by loud mouth bigots and lunatics. Surely I am not alone in seeing this for what it is?
If I have to stand for fucking Parliament to sort this crap out, I will be SO CROSS.