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Officials discourage preschool suspensions, encourage mental health consultations
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30161
Subject(s) - mental health , public health , psychology , nursing , family medicine , medicine , psychiatry
Last month, National Public Radio reported this fact: thousands of children are suspended or expelled from preschool every year, mainly because of behavior problems. This is pre‐kindergarten — and it's public school. How many are suspended or expelled from private preschool or day care is not even known.