"Why do all your friends say school"
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Anonymous
I am not from Ohio. I am from San Diego. However, I have lived in DC, and visited Columbus and Cincinatti. They are good cities. |
Anonymous
Exactly. I taught my own kids shapes, colors, counting, the alphabet etc. I'm not a teacher. |
Anonymous
| I call it school because DD1, who is 3.5, is at a preschool. Lead teachers have 4-year college degrees, they follow MCPS school calendar/days off, assessments are conducted in the fall and spring with optional parent/teacher conference, full and half day programs are offered and I’m required to enroll her every school year. I’m not sure what about that doesn’t sound like school. DD2 is in the infant room, and they only accept infants of existing families who already have children enrolled. I absolutely call it school for her too for the purposes of consistency and understanding for DD1. YMMV. |
Anonymous
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People can call it what they want, but babies and toddler don’t go to “school.” I’ve also heard SAHMs say they are “homeschooling” their 3 or 4 yo. I think that’s silly, too. I don’t send my kids to preschool until age 4, I SAH, and of course I do art, reading, letters, science experiments, outings, etc with my preschool age kid(s). But I’d never call that “homeschooling”— it’s just called parenting.
I will say even when my oldest was in preschool, we always called it “preschool,” not just school, because “School,” to me, implies K & up. |
Anonymous
Tummy time, diaper change, book, bottle and nap are not curriculum. They are what every baby does every day. |
Anonymous
Pp, I think you missed the sarcasm. |
Anonymous
| We were driving around last week when a radio ad come on for a preschool talking about their "curriculum" and my teen busted up laughing. "Curriculum? Academically-challenging environment? No, it's a bunch of little kids wiping food on themselves and pooping their pants!" Ha. |
Anonymous
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I have been a working mom, SAHM and part time working mom. My kids attended an early learning center that had extended hours. Most parents did work granted it felt like at least one parent worked part time, from home or was in school.
I called it school. When my older child started there, he went 2 hours per week for 3 hours per day. Then he went 5 days per week 3 hours per day. Eventually I had a 2yo and 4yo going there 9-4 daily. I always called it school. They did everything a so called normal preschool would do from 9-12. They would get lunch, nap and play outside after nap. It was a lovely schedule. I eventually stopped working and I still kept my 4yo there but I picked him up at lunchtime. |
Anonymous
| It's athing people here do. Tough my friends were ridiculous for calling daycare "school," until I moved here. Seems to be a dmv thing. |
Anonymous
+1 The ignorance here is frightening. |
Anonymous
Sounds like maybe they should start "school" earlier in Ohio. |
Anonymous
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Found Ohio #41 in education among states (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education). 5 year-olds should still be in daycare. School should start at age 7.
2 extra years of schooling and your children have nothing to show for it compared to their peers around the world. I'm not laughing. |
Anonymous
+1 this. Even putting aside the calling it school vs. daycare argument, I cringe every time I hear a parent talk (sometimes brag) about their 3/4 year old’s “academic” preschool. It’s so developmentally inappropriate. |
Anonymous
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Who has so few real problems on this earth that what people call their child care is something you spend mental energy on? Are you actually a fully functional adult? Did your parents significantly overindulge you when you were a child? Did you never hear the word 'no' or something? I find myself morbidly curious about you and want to know where your parents went wrong.
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Anonymous
No, that list ranks Ohio at #36 for k-12 |