In Silicon Valley, where public schools get some of the best scores in California, many low-income children – whose parents are generally immigrants – do not benefit of the early education level needed to keep up with their more advantaged peers. The area is a good example of how much American parents have become obsessed about how to give their children an academic edge upon entering kindergarten.

The situation in Silicon Valley tends to reflect what is happening with the rest of the US, a problem widespread around the world: kids of the poorest families have the higher risks to be left behind from the start. Almost three quarters of Silicon Valley’s more disadvantaged preschoolers at least have one foreign-born parent, and thousands of them enter kindergarten without any kind of early formal education. As many as three quarters of 3-year-old kids from poorer households do not go to preschool, unlike a majority of their more affluent counterparts.

Image: Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (Wikipedia)

READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE