According to Janet Hopson’s article, “Infant Intelligentsia: Can Babies Learn to Read? And Should They?” (2012), “In the first three years of life, a child of welfare parents hears 974 different words in daily conversation (9.6 million total), the working-class [parent’s] child [hears] 1,498 [words] (19.5 million total), and the child with professional parents [hear] 2,176 [words] (33.6 million overall).” As a result of the disparity among these three classes, the children of welfare parents struggle in preschool while children professional parents learn with less difficulty, since their parents expose them to a larger vocabulary. Therefore, the children of lower socioeconomic families perform worse in their early education, and a difficult start in a child’s education prompts lower performance in school, even throughout his or her high school years as stated in E. N. Junn and C. J. Boyatzis’s book, Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development
According to Janet Hopson’s article, “Infant Intelligentsia: Can Babies Learn to Read? And Should They?” (2012), “In the first three years of life, a child of welfare parents hears 974 different words in daily conversation (9.6 million total), the working-class [parent’s] child [hears] 1,498 [words] (19.5 million total), and the child with professional parents [hear] 2,176 [words] (33.6 million overall).” As a result of the disparity among these three classes, the children of welfare parents struggle in preschool while children professional parents learn with less difficulty, since their parents expose them to a larger vocabulary. Therefore, the children of lower socioeconomic families perform worse in their early education, and a difficult start in a child’s education prompts lower performance in school, even throughout his or her high school years as stated in E. N. Junn and C. J. Boyatzis’s book, Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development