How Did Six Months Out of Head Start These Kids?

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In early 20 20, you visited a pre kindergarten in queen's is part of your reporting. What did you see? Its what struck you? These were four year olds. They had been out of any kind of formal child care setting for six months or more. Even when they came back to school, it's not like their lives were normal, because they often weren't doing anything else social.

And how the seemingly endless wait in the US is affecting their development.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Sean Rameswaram and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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