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.
