“Those two schools pressured us into thinking there was something wrong,” mom Yifan Sun says
- Yifan Sun and Tyler Louviere’s twins aren’t even 4 and they’ve already been kicked out of two preschools for “listening issues”
- Thousands of other kids have faced similar fates over the years, statistics show
- The problem is getting worse, experts say, and it’s more complicated than it seems
Yifan Sun and Tyler Louviere’s twin daughters were eager for day one of preschool last August.
With new backpacks (one pizza-themed, one with flowers) and new clothes (a Bluey T-shirt, a flowery tank top), the 3-year-olds stood in front of their Naperville, Ill., home holding “First Day” paper plates. Each had answered the same question — “What do you want to be when you grow up?” (a ninja and a duck) — and their parents snapped a photo.
“I was excited for them to be with kids their own age and make friends,” says Sun, 34, a data analyst. But now the memory is “ruined,” she says. “I can’t get myself to look at the picture without feeling sad — sad with a side of anger.”…