It’s amazing to me that kindergarten remains a controversial subject, but a specimen in one of those great laboratories of governmental ideas, the state legislatures, has managed to come up with this…
I went to the Department of Education and got a list of kindergartens and I went to the safety department and got the crime report. … In general, the towns with a kindergarten have 400 percent more crime than other towns in the same county. In every county, the towns and cities with kindergarten had more crime.
You know, I’m a sucker for counterintuitive conclusions about things that seemingly have nothing to do with each other. But I don’t think this one holds up to analysis.
This will come as no surprise to anyone that has seen this documentary on the culture of crime that accompany inner-city school kindergartens:
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Since there are approximately a jillion possible confounds to that correlation I’d have to say you’re right to be sceptical.
For one thing, I’m betting the poltroon didn’t control for population in comparing areas with a kindergarten vs. those without.Report