Negative Effects Of Early Education

Abstract

Early education includes all children from birth to age eight. Opting to provide excellent early education comes with many opportunity costs. Opportunity costs are losing potential gains when choosing one option versus the other. Anything other than giving children excellent early education comes with an opportunity cost that does not look forward to maximizing the future of next generations. It is important to include education early on in a child’s life to help secure the positive effects this will have on their development into adulthood. Though the opportunity cost of poor early education is great, the external benefits are greater with positive results. These benefits lead to a lasting success of academic and employment success

Research demonstrates that only four percent of prisoners in Michigan under the age of twenty years old graduated from high school (Lynch, 2016). This is something that could have been avoided by creating an excellent portal of education for more children earlier in their life. Helping to fill the void where many children fail to achieve their highest potential as their educational livelihood progress is the lack of early education. Young children need to encounter positive effects against inequality by being taught emotional, social, and physical developmental skills; officially and

Approximately one point six million low-income families receive assistance from the federal Child Care Development Fund to pursue early childhood education for their children (Lynch, 2016). Creating a way for parents who cannot afford to pay for childcare, but want to help give their child a jump start to learning was an important mission of President Obama rightfully. The Child Care Development Fund is only one portion of President Obama’s seventy five billion dollar plan to expand early childhood learning (Lynch, 2016). This fund was created to provide young American students a firmer foundation entering Kindergarten.

Early childhood education directly affects the overall development of infants and young children, in addition to it affects the adults they become. Providing excellent early education is an effective way to not only benefit the economy as a whole but also families and communities more importantly. Investing in early education universally has potential to improve economic and equitable growth while decreasing social issues. Early education allows for disadvantaged, most at-risk children to have a better chance at achieving success (Lynch,