One Montana woman’s childcare travails

Ever since her earliest days in early childhood education, Amanda Wiseman has felt that her chosen field is “underappreciated.” Her first job as a teacher, at a private preschool program in Missoula, paid about $14 an hour, and while she has heard elected officials pay lip service to the profession’s importance, she continues to labor under the impression that many people “don’t take early-ed teachers seriously.”

by Alex Sakariassen