Michael Mack, Chief Administrative Judge for Juvenile Matters, CT Superior Court, December 2004
In this age of fractured families, of abject poverty, we have a moral, a social and an economic imperative to help the newest generation of very young children to overcome the obstacles we placed in front of generations past. The solution is difficult and expensive. But the overall benefit to society for years to come will be immeasurably positive. If we do not consider mandatory formal education for all of our children beginning from age three, we are condemned to repeat the formula that brought us to where we are today.