While preschool programs are common in the United States and other developed countries, Simpson says they’re rare in African nations.
辛普森说,尽管学前教育在美国及其他发达国家很普遍,但对于非洲国家来说,还是很少见的。
“Often young children between zero and 3 years old, the health systems are keeping track of them and they’re doing vaccinations and things like that. And then, when they turn about 5 or 6, they enter into the school systems and the ministries of education take them over. But these in-between years, they’re not being cared for by the health ministries and they’re not yet being looked after by the education ministries in many cases,” she says.
她说:“通常0~3岁的幼儿由医疗保健体系来记录他们的健康与成长,负责给他们注射疫苗及相关的一些医疗卫生事宜。而当这些孩子们长到5~6岁,入学后就由教育部来负责他们的成长。然而对于处于这两个年龄段中间阶段的大部分孩子们来说,既享受不到医疗保健体系的福利,也不属于教育部的责任范畴。”