Children who are 3 and 4 years old weigh only 35 pounds or so, but when they are kicking, hitting, biting, running around or are in other ways a handful, they are more likely to get expelled from their state-funded preschool program than students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
More than three times as likely.
That’s the finding in the first study of expulsion rates of 3- and 4-year-olds, led by Yale University Child Study Center researcher Walter S. Gilliam.
Gilliam, assistant professor of child psychiatry and psychology, said that decades of research show that early childhood programs can significantly improve the chances of a student’s success in school.
“Unfortunately, there appears to be a back door through which some children — the ones who stand the most to gain from these programs — are sometimes pushed,” he said.
“These children are barely out of diapers. No one wants to think of children this young being kicked out of school.”
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