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Yes. Several. Mainly because I know what’s going on in their lives, and the students don’t. If the students knew what I knew, they’d cut those teachers a little slack.One teacher in particular, with whom I worked seven years ago, stands out for me among all of the teacher sob stories I know.To make a long story short, when she was in her 40s and had been teaching preschool for half of her life, her husband left her for a much younger woman. Around the same time, the school’s preschool program changed from full-time to just two days per week and, in order to stay full-time and keep her benefits, she was forced to become the school’s art teacher for all students in grades PreK-8 (ages 3–14).She was good with the younger students, but had no idea how to control the middle schoolers. She hated teaching the older kids, but she had no choice. She was still more than a decade away from retirement and needed the health insurance, but she also couldn’t afford to go back to school or change careers or anything like that. She was trapped teaching students that she wasn’t trained to teach.And they were merciless to her.The art class existed primarily to give the “regular” teachers a planning period, but I, along with my coworkers, ended up sitting with our classes to the art room most days, because we could control the kids, and she couldn’t. The students treated her class like recess, and treated her with a level of disrespect you usually only see in the movies, right before the “savior” teacher swoops in and sets things right.The students didn’t see how the teacher cried after school every day, alone in her classroom, before she composed herself enough to walk down the block to her apartment, where she probably cried some more, alone, throughout the evening and night.I left that school after teaching there just one year. The school closed two years after I left. I hope she was able to find a full time position working with younger children. Middle schoolers can be just as cruel to their teachers as they are to each other.

Quality preschool programs benefit students and the nation as a whole. By expanding access to early childhood education, we can prepare more students for a lifetime of learning, ensure that children enter the classroom ready to learn and reduce the achievement gap. The Head Start Program has been critical in providing early childhood education opportunities to lower-income families. Last year, Head Start celebrated its 50th anniversary, and I will continue to support Head Start initiatives and investments at the federal level because affordable Pre-K has made a positive impact on the lives of countless families.

Longitudinal studies have determined that day care with preschool programs can help increase emotional wellbeing, decrease social disadvantage, improve social competency, and prepare children for a seamless transition to the next level of schooling. There was also a clear correlation between an increase of attendance with an increase in intellectual development, greater independence, improved concentration, and socializing ease.Day care centers with preschool programs incorporated were found to further the development of cognitive and social skills. There was also an improvement in standardized testing scores in primary school students as well. Early education programs can teach your child how to have confidence, work with others, concentrate, have patience, socialize, cooperate, respect authority, and so much more.