Editorial: Preschool investment in students’ futures

With the state requiring students to know more and more before they enter first grade, there is greater emphasis on covering academic material in kindergarten.

That in turn makes it increasingly important for parents to enroll their children in some sort of organized preschool program, where they will learn how to behave in a classroom along with some fundamental academic skills, such as recognizing letters and numbers and printing their name.

Currently about one-third to two-thirds of the students who attend kindergarten at local schools aren’t prepared because they haven’t been taught how to recognize letters or put them together to form words. They also don’t know how their teachers expect them to behave in a kindergarten classroom, school officials said.

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