Posts about: personal possessions

Rich kids and poor kids face different rules when it comes to bringing personal items to school

Rich kids and poor kids face different rules when it comes to bringing personal items to school

Poor preschoolers get fewer chances than wealthier children to bring their prized personal possessions to school. That’s what I found in my two-year comparative ethnographic study of two preschools in Madison, Wisconsin. One of the preschools primarily serves middle-class white children and the other primarily serves poor children of color. In the preschool that served mostly poor […]…