The article Rethinking Pre-K: 5 Ways to Fix Preschool absolutely baffles me. To think that economic status could affect your child as early as preschool, putting a gap between a low-income family child and a middle-class child by three years already just does not make sense to me. After continuing on with my reading I can't believe that only nine states including Washington D.C. offer universal preschool. Some states that offered preschool prgrams had to cut them because of budget cuts. This to me is unnacceptable, education is the foundation to what most kids will do in their lives. Without a good educational foundation we will not be able to go forward successfully into the future.
The fives ways that are suggested in this article to fix preschool are great suggestions. To stop thinking about only K-12 and start thinking pre-K-12, expanding access, bringing early learning initiatives, assessing outcomes, and using the government to push pre-K reforms are great ideas to make preschool a better learning place for children. Economic status shouldn't be a restraint for children and their learning environment, the kids cannot choose what tier economic status is, and shouldn't have to worry about it throughout their educational years.
Until next time,
Chloe
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