I read an online article by a Sun Journal reporter about pre-K teachers making house calls.

It stated that the Auburn School Department set up separate meetings with pre-K students and their parents; instead of the meetings being an orientation held at the school, they are held at people’s homes. The reason was because it is a more comfortable way for the students, teachers and parents to get familiar with each other.

The parents said that their children were so excited for a teacher to come to their home that the children kept “going to the door and asking ‘Are they here yet?'”

I think that teachers making house calls to pre-K students is a great idea. The students seem to be so excited, and it is a comfortable way to meet teachers. The pupils are not as nervous when that first day of school comes around.

Day care and private school students and parents have the luxury of getting to know their teachers because the parents drop off their children and pick them up. The house calls give public school students the opportunity to get to know their teachers.

I hope the house calls continue. It is a great idea that has many benefits. I would recommend that the idea be taken beyond the Auburn School Department and brought to many public schools across Maine.

Brooke DePuy, Litchfield