Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m new to the Bethesda/Kensington area and discovering that there are many lovely, high quality, play-based half day nursery school programs with small classes and good teacher: child ratios. But I need full time care for next fall for my child who will be 3 then, and I’ve been kind of dismayed by the few centers I have toured so far which are much more like traditional daycares (eg emphasis on work sheets, rote learning) and have really big classes and high student: child ratios. When our oldest was in preschool in DC her 3 year old class had 15 kids and 4 teachers which was such a good set up, most of whom were degreed. But I’m not seeing any programs with anything close that.
Are there any full day, year round programs that are play based and high quality, with low ratios in this area? I am willing to drive to Rockville, Garrett Park, or even could try parts of Chevy Chase.
4 teachers and 15 kids cannot be true. That ratio is basically 4:1, which is almost infant ratio of 3:1. A preschool could not make any money with four salaries with only 15 kids. That’s ridiculous. Furthermore, the ratio for MoCO for three is 1:10. Or 2:20. It gets children in the mode of being in large classrooms tk get them ready for PreK 1:12 or 2:24 before they go to Kindergarten, where it is 1:27. You are setting your child up for failure in a class of 4:15 at age 3.
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