(En inglés)
#GetaHeadStart: David Schauer
David Schauer: I grew up, was born and raised in Williamstown, New Jersey. Born in 1961. The story is a difficult one but one I think worth telling.
For reasons I still can't explain today, in 1963, my dad left. He decided he wanted a different life. He didn't necessarily want to raise five kids, so he packed his bags and left my mother and my four siblings and I. Now, I will say there were tough times. We were obviously on food stamps. I had to carry the blue card – the free lunch card. Can still remember being made fun of for having the blue card.
Head Start definitely is fundamental and foundational to who I became. The love of learning was planted for me at Head Start and quickly evolved into curiosity and the pursuit of science. I pursued the radiation physics path within the Navy. I had a number of jobs over my twenty-year career, but one of those was the cleanup of one of our former nuclear test sites.
Part of my decision to retire from the Medical Service Corps was an offer I received to be the executive director of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, the NCRP. By being exposed to education at a very early age, it convinced me of the value and importance of being a life-long learner. Both that which I am today and what I try to instill in my sons as well.
Narrator: For information about Head Start programs in your area, please visit acf.hhs.gov/HeadStart. #GetaHeadStart. Produced in 2016 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
El profesor y director ejecutivo de NCRP, David Schauer, tuvo una infancia difícil y no creció con mucho, pero desarrolló un amor por el aprendizaje cuando su madre lo matriculó en el programa Head Start. Conoce el recorrido que ha hecho Schauer (video en inglés).
