Children Ready for School or Schools Ready for Children?

High Scope Foundation has worked for years on the issue of readiness. It has decided that the problem is not in the children we love, but in the ways our schools invest in, and are committed to, the steps needed for all children to step successfully forward, no matter what has happened to them before.

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Getting children school ready is a judgment about little kids who have no choice in the ways they are raised. Getting schools ready is an investment we all can make in creating conditions that welcome the little ones, safely, in a comfort of belonging first. Then, when they are comfortable, they can join the quest for all new learning the school can offer. Each child is OK.