Would you send your 3 year old to a quality early childcare center that primarily serves lower income Latino families?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t. Just being honest. Peers matter. Most of these kids will have behavioral problems, parents that don’t read to them, drugs/violence at home, stuck in front of screens all day. Yes they are three- but surely you have better options

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want a community for my kids. Which means peers and their parents. My kids have been in a title 1 school and it was zero community for my kid. Never again. I would rather donate to some non-profit serving latinos.

Make your own friends. It’s weird you feel like you have to make friends with other kid’s parents.

You are an idiot. Other kid's parents are involved in bringing the kids to playdates, birthdays, outings in the park. More than that, you cannot trust your own child in their home if the parents are poor, not married to each other, into drugs or alcohol, live in squalor, do not have the same social upbringing etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we really have to pretend that a lot of antisocial and unhealthy behavior statistically accompanies poverty? It’s not about being Latino, it’s about the poverty.

I live in an area with very poor white families. The frequent issues I see that I don’t want my preschooler exposed to are:
- watching totally inappropriate/scary media for children
- extremely unhealthy eating habits and food
- casual abuse and violence. Parents screaming at kids and hitting them in public, using verbal insults to kids, adults screaming at each other, and just much more harsh language than I’m comfortable with

I refuse to pretend these issues aren’t more common in lower income people, in general. I don’t think exposure to these behaviors benefit kids at all.

This varies by group (and obviously by individual family). Latinos are likely to be cooking a lot, less junk food. And less likely to be beating their kids and screaming at them. Probably a lot of screens.

[Anonymous]

What's considered poverty on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's considered poverty on DCUM?

If you get childcare vouchers from the government, you’re in poverty

[Anonymous]

Been there, done that. Please do not romanticize poverty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's considered poverty on DCUM?

If you get childcare vouchers from the government, you’re in poverty

Well some people could say anyone living in the US has more income and resources than someone in poorer countries, how could they be in poverty".

[Anonymous]

Of course I would! And learn Spanish

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want a community for my kids. Which means peers and their parents. My kids have been in a title 1 school and it was zero community for my kid. Never again. I would rather donate to some non-profit serving latinos.

Make your own friends. It’s weird you feel like you have to make friends with other kid’s parents.

You are an idiot. Other kid's parents are involved in bringing the kids to playdates, birthdays, outings in the park. More than that, you cannot trust your own child in their home if the parents are poor, not married to each other, into drugs or alcohol, live in squalor, do not have the same social upbringing etc.

Why can't you trust your kid to go to their friend's house, even if that friend is poor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my kids’ preschool, we are not all white but we are all middle class. It has been like an instant community. All the parents are on a group chat. We have such fun parties and play dates. We work similar schedules so it’s easy. We really help each other out.

I don’t know any other preschool but from what I’ve heard, it’s hard to find this sort of community in a title 1 environment.

Is it hard to find community at a title 1 school or are you trying to find it on your pre-defined terms. I wonder if the other families would agree that their is no community?

[Anonymous]

We toured the program this week. Meals and snacks are provided and outside food isn't allowed…each meal has a fruit or vegetable, it seemed fairly varied, nothing too concerning on there.

I'm sure the children were acting differently with strangers in the room, but we hadn't seen any behaviors other than a sharing situation ( that washandled calmly). The kids seemed happy enough, and the classrooms were nice sizes. It seemed a little sterile, that there wasn't more children’s artwork displayed, but it was nice that it wasn't visually overstimulating like many classrooms.

I think we're going for it (despite the negative comment from my MIL about the location 🙄)

[Anonymous]

I had a friend who did this experiment with her daughter in elementary school. School was a well funded magnet school that basically only drew poor Latino applicants. Friend sent her daughter because the school offered Spanish language immersion and thought the cultural and income differences would be fine bc the kids all had to APPLY for the school…so the kids and families WANTED to be there and would act accordingly.

She was wrong, very very wrong. From the outset the kids ganged up on her daughter—bullying, ostracizing, stealing from her, etc. The other kids hated her…they left after a few months.

Preschool might be fine bc the kids are too young to be nasty. Maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We toured the program this week. Meals and snacks are provided and outside food isn't allowed…each meal has a fruit or vegetable, it seemed fairly varied, nothing too concerning on there.

I'm sure the children were acting differently with strangers in the room, but we hadn't seen any behaviors other than a sharing situation ( that washandled calmly). The kids seemed happy enough, and the classrooms were nice sizes. It seemed a little sterile, that there wasn't more children’s artwork displayed, but it was nice that it wasn't visually overstimulating like many classrooms.

I think we're going for it (despite the negative comment from my MIL about the location 🙄)

Outside food isn’t allowed because they participate in the USDA food program (cacfp). If your child has a medical reason to bring outside food, you will be able to.

- center director

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's considered poverty on DCUM?

Renting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We toured the program this week. Meals and snacks are provided and outside food isn't allowed…each meal has a fruit or vegetable, it seemed fairly varied, nothing too concerning on there.

I'm sure the children were acting differently with strangers in the room, but we hadn't seen any behaviors other than a sharing situation ( that washandled calmly). The kids seemed happy enough, and the classrooms were nice sizes. It seemed a little sterile, that there wasn't more children’s artwork displayed, but it was nice that it wasn't visually overstimulating like many classrooms.

I think we're going for it (despite the negative comment from my MIL about the location 🙄)

Outside food isn’t allowed because they participate in the USDA food program (cacfp). If your child has a medical reason to bring outside food, you will be able to.

- center director

Oh, I’m not worried about it, I'm just pointing out to those were concerned he'd be exposed to a bunch of junk food that it's not applicable at the site.