The Onion: where reality and satire sometimes collide…
It is getting harder and harder to separate parody from reality. In this post, The Onion tell us of a new report from the U.S. Department of Education urging online education for 3- and 4-year-olds. It is almost too close to the reality to be funny. You could read it in your local newspaper and believe it.
This is too uncomfortably close to reality:
WASHINGTON—Saying the option is revolutionizing the way the nation’s 3- and 4-year-olds prepare for the grade school years ahead, a Department of Education report released Thursday confirmed that an increasing number of U.S. toddlers are now attending online preschool. “We found that a growing number of American toddlers are eschewing the traditional brick-and-mortar preschools in favor of sitting down in front of a computer screen for four hours a day and furthering their early psychosocial development in a virtual environment,” said the report’s author, Dr. Stephen…
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It is not satire. DOE provides grants for innovative tech up to 1million for infant, toddler and prek tech for use on tablets, pc, videos, etc.
Source link from Gov. Website below
http://ies.ed.gov/ncser/projects/program.asp?ProgID=77