After recess, Bardstown Head Start students make their way back to the gymnasium, located at the historic St. Thomas Parish. Bardstown Head Start helps low-income families serving 80 three and four year olds from six counties.

Teacher Pascha Riney encourages students to be nice to each other after play turned rough during recess and Jasper Miloholland (left) made another boy cry. The two apologized and were soon playing together again as if nothing happened.

To test progress of understanding, Sally McGovern, a family service worker, calls out an action and Ashton Donahue has to pick the drawing that best illustrates it.

A lucky ladybug is just out of reach of the jumping four-year-old Jaquan Montgomery during recess at Bardstown Head Start on Oct. 22, 2003.

After breakfast at the Bardstown Head Start, students (from left) Brandon Wells, 4, Riley Pineiroa, 5, and William Malone, 4, share a sink to brush their teeth.

The nearing of the Head Start bus brings tears and pleas not to go from Ashley Sosa (left), even though her mother, Maria Cruz, and cousin, Josilin Cruz, will be attending school with her. An advantage of Head Start is that parents are allowed to attend school with their children with many parents volunteering their service, some becoming teachers at the school themselves.