Send your child to VPK

VPK has been around since at least 2005 but what is with these parents? This program is to help your child become successful in school by giving them a head start. They teach your child the alphabet as well as the sound that letters makes, preparing the way for your child to be a great reader. They are teaching your child how to count, add, subtract, even some measuring. They help your child understand how to break big sounds down to figure how to read.

I wish, at my age, I had all that help when I was younger. Please, parents help prepare your child and sent them to a VPK class somewhere, let them get that head start on a great education. Yes, I know from experience I have seen this program work. I am a preschool teacher.

This story was originally published June 5, 2016 at 7:47 PM with the headline "Send your child to VPK."