California Promised ‘Preschool For All.’ What I Got Was $120,000 in Tuition Fees.
For a Generation, the Golden State Has Failed to Educate Its Youngest Citizens
Since the 1990s, California’s leaders have promised to make preschool universal for every child.
Maybe they’ll do it by the time I have grandchildren.
It’s already too late for my own kids. The youngest of my three sons graduated from preschool last week. I celebrated by writing my final preschool check—for monthly tuition of $1,165. With that check, my spending on preschool tuition for all three boys, over the last seven years, totaled more than $120,000.
All that tuition, alongside a 21st-century Southern California mortgage, has wiped away most of my family’s …
