I have also seen firsthand how difficult being a child in America can be, and how abstract policies affect my kids in very real, sometimes painful, ways: how food insecurity can drive families to our school's
monthly food shelf, how incarceration inequity has many of my students writing
personal narratives about
visiting fathers and uncles in prison, how immigration laws left one of my students trying to hide his tears over his mother's possible deportation.
The lower number of
visits new parent educators should complete
monthly during their first year reflects the additional time new parent educators typically need for supervision, planning
personal visits, and shadowing more experienced parent educators.