Casey Stockstill is the author of “False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers.” She is a sociology professor at Dartmouth College.
On Sept. 30, $24 billion in stimulus money that helped child care programs survive expired. That means poor children, including a disproportionate number who are of color, are losing access to preschool and the learning experiences that preschool brings. Preschools are highly segregated, often clustering poor children of color in some schools and middle-class white children in others. But as we’ve long known, separate is not equal.
One of the teachers I met during my research was Ms. Roxanne. She was warm, responsive and experienced but consistently experiencing high job stress. She told me, “Some days are hard, like with jumping off tables, cussing. ... I knew with most of the kids that it was coming from the stress in their life.” On top of the stress of teaching, Ms. Roxanne worked a seasonal retail job to supplement her low pay as a teacher. In what was a loss for the children at that high-poverty preschool, Ms.
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