Preschool: What to Do When It's Not Available

Give Your Child an Advantage

The Advantages of Preschool

The Effective Provision of Preschool Education Project has determined preschool to be an integral aspect of developing social development. The project also showed that preschoolers have a higher tendency to become task oriented, and that they are better prepared for academic environments.

Some children from disadvantaged environments gain a benefit from preschools by getting an edge of academic and social interaction that is not always possible at home. Parents may both be working; one parent may not be living at home; and in many cases, the parent's may not have the academic background suitable for enhancing early development.

While preschool is not a mandatory grade in most public school systems, those children that have the advantage of attending it have an even better advantage for success for the rest of their school days.

Availability of Preschool

Some preschools can be very expensive. Others can be a free extension of the public school system. You can always check with the elementary schools in your district to see what type of preschool is available to you. If the schools don't offer them, someone there may be able to give you some good leads for available preschool programs.

Head Start and Sure Start