Teen gets head start on career goals

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September 21, 2018 - 11:00 PM

It’s Wednesday, 8 a.m., breakfast time in the Toddler Room at Iola’s Head Start preschool.

Three adults and two towheaded toddlers sit in small chairs around a small table. The adults’ knees are all visible above the tabletop.

The children, Easton and Rey, ladle spoonfuls of Cream of Wheat and mandarin oranges into their mouths with half-accurate aim. Other toddlers will join these two soon. These are the early birds.

Rey, a sweet-faced girl of almost two, with plump cheeks, sleepy eyes, and the appetite of an NFL lineman, keeps her hungry spoon moving in one continuous loop, with great purpose — from bowl to mouth to bowl to mouth — until the bowl is empty. And then, in a quiet voice, she asks: “More?”

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