Anybody thinking about skipping 3’s preschool this fall?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids need peers.

OP here. That’s my main concern. We are active and engaged but he doesn’t really get to be around other toddlers much. My original solution was to send him to an awesome and fun preschool but now I wonder if we would just be constantly paranoid this year.

I think that there will be a number of families making this choice, and if at some point you think he needs more you will be able to find 2 or 3 other kids his age who are home with a parent or a nanny, and do some regular playdates. That's plenty for a 3 year old.

Then OP needs to have him join a playgroup, which basically is like preschool. He needs socialization.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids need peers.

OP here. That’s my main concern. We are active and engaged but he doesn’t really get to be around other toddlers much. My original solution was to send him to an awesome and fun preschool but now I wonder if we would just be constantly paranoid this year.

If stay at home orders and school closures are lifted, why would you be paranoid?

Because I doubt the willingness of our leaders to impose a second round of extreme measures after all of the complaints/politicization re: our current situation. I feel like by this fall many people will be so desperate to “go back to normal” that there will be pressure to open things up and hope fir the best. I would like to form my own opinion first and then make decisions from there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids need peers.

OP here. That’s my main concern. We are active and engaged but he doesn’t really get to be around other toddlers much. My original solution was to send him to an awesome and fun preschool but now I wonder if we would just be constantly paranoid this year.

If stay at home orders and school closures are lifted, why would you be paranoid?

Because I doubt the willingness of our leaders to impose a second round of extreme measures after all of the complaints/politicization re: our current situation. I feel like by this fall many people will be so desperate to “go back to normal” that there will be pressure to open things up and hope fir the best. I would like to form my own opinion first and then make decisions from there.

But how can you form an informed opinion without knowing what the conditions will be like this fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids need peers.

OP here. That’s my main concern. We are active and engaged but he doesn’t really get to be around other toddlers much. My original solution was to send him to an awesome and fun preschool but now I wonder if we would just be constantly paranoid this year.

If stay at home orders and school closures are lifted, why would you be paranoid?

Because I doubt the willingness of our leaders to impose a second round of extreme measures after all of the complaints/politicization re: our current situation. I feel like by this fall many people will be so desperate to “go back to normal” that there will be pressure to open things up and hope fir the best. I would like to form my own opinion first and then make decisions from there.

But how can you form an informed opinion without knowing what the conditions will be like this fall?

If a then b,
If x then y

I would like to know what my ideal is before being forced to react at the last minute. If it’s not a huge deal I just assume skip this year but I wanted to see what others may have experienced.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would wait to enroll and see. When does he turn 3? Will he go to kindergarten in 2 years or 3?

Turns 3 this summer. Kindergarten is fall 2022.

So
just turned 3 is 20-21 first year of preschool
Just tirned 4 is 21-22 second year of preschool
Just turned 5 is 22-23 kindergarten

Keep in mind that sooooo many boys who are born in summer are redshirted. Is he born in August then even more so. In my kid's kindergarten there were no boys born in the summer who had just turned 5. They all had just turned 6. Keep that in mind. So if you redshirt he will have 3 years of oreschhool. In that case I wouldn't enroll him this fall and wait until he is solidly potty trained and ready so 3 1/2 or even 4.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids need peers.

OP here. That’s my main concern. We are active and engaged but he doesn’t really get to be around other toddlers much. My original solution was to send him to an awesome and fun preschool but now I wonder if we would just be constantly paranoid this year.

If stay at home orders and school closures are lifted, why would you be paranoid?

Because I doubt the willingness of our leaders to impose a second round of extreme measures after all of the complaints/politicization re: our current situation. I feel like by this fall many people will be so desperate to “go back to normal” that there will be pressure to open things up and hope fir the best. I would like to form my own opinion first and then make decisions from there.

But how can you form an informed opinion without knowing what the conditions will be like this fall?

She can form an informed opinion on how important preschool is or isn't, and develop a sense of what the options are, so that when it becomes clear what things will be like in the fall she's ready to act quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two of my kids never went to preschool at all, and two went for one "semester" the spring before kindergarten.

None of their teachers could tell.

Okay but you had four kids who I assume were fairly close in age.

[Anonymous]

I'm worried about the fall too, OP. Our two year old just started daycare this winter, and it's closed now for the foreseeable future. Now I am rethinking sending him back when it does reopen. To be honest, I'm not terribly worried about my 2 year old getting sick, since the evidence suggests that children handle the virus much better than others. Neither my husband nor I have respiratory issues that make the disease more threatening to us. If it was just the three of us, I would send him back. BUT, we're having another baby in August and I am very worried about a newborn contracting the disease if there is a resurgence in the fall. I don't know what we'll do.

[Anonymous]

Our DS started half day preschool this year at 2.75 and absolutely loved it and misses it. We have 2 more years of preK ahead of us before he will be in K. We are moving and only looked at a couple Of preschools and are on the waitlist at one by our house. I think rolling moments of social distancing will last through next year so we have decided to hire a nanny because we really need the help with childcare if both DH and I are working from home. I’m not sure we can afford both preK and a nanny, plus I don’t like all the questions surround fall and everything up in the air, so we are strongly leaning towards nanny only and maybe some classes. He has 2021 to go to prek4 and I’m more confident things will be more normal then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our DS started half day preschool this year at 2.75 and absolutely loved it and misses it. We have 2 more years of preK ahead of us before he will be in K. We are moving and only looked at a couple Of preschools and are on the waitlist at one by our house. I think rolling moments of social distancing will last through next year so we have decided to hire a nanny because we really need the help with childcare if both DH and I are working from home. I’m not sure we can afford both preK and a nanny, plus I don’t like all the questions surround fall and everything up in the air, so we are strongly leaning towards nanny only and maybe some classes. He has 2021 to go to prek4 and I’m more confident things will be more normal then.

Oh and also we currently have a 7 month old which is figuring into this equation as well.

[Anonymous]

I share your concern, OP. Our son is already three (October birthday) and an only child. We really want him to start preschool/pre-k 3 for social development. But with the likelihood of school closures next year, I don’t know what to do. If we don’t start him in school, then it will be less disruptive to him (and us) if/when schools close again. On the other hand I really feel he needs to be with other kids at this point and he has been asking to start school for months. In our neighborhood there aren’t playgroups for children his age and most kids are in some sort of preschool during the day. We already dropped out of daytime music classes this year because all the other kids were so much younger. Tough decision.

[Anonymous]

Part-time preschool for a family with a SAHP is a luxury, not a necessity. Yes, it's nice for them to learn basic school skills and socialization, but many kids don't learn these things until Kindergarten.

Preschoolers share all of their illnesses, and who's to say that they could not spread Covid-19 without developing the illness themselves? I would keep my preschooler at home this fall, especially if I had a younger child in the home and/or was expecting a baby.

- Signed, someone who has taught part-time preschool for 15 years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids need peers.

OP here. That’s my main concern. We are active and engaged but he doesn’t really get to be around other toddlers much. My original solution was to send him to an awesome and fun preschool but now I wonder if we would just be constantly paranoid this year.

If stay at home orders and school closures are lifted, why would you be paranoid?

Because not everyone blindly trusts politicians to make inconsequential decisions, let alone important decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Part-time preschool for a family with a SAHP is a luxury, not a necessity. Yes, it's nice for them to learn basic school skills and socialization, but many kids don't learn these things until Kindergarten.

Preschoolers share all of their illnesses, and who's to say that they could not spread Covid-19 without developing the illness themselves? I would keep my preschooler at home this fall, especially if I had a younger child in the home and/or was expecting a baby.

- Signed, someone who has taught part-time preschool for 15 years

School academics can wait, but I’m hesitant to say socialization can wait until kindergarten. Many kids might get that from brothers or sisters, but not an only child.

[Anonymous]

Considering not sending our 3 yo in the fall because we’ve been paying for his school for over a month now and he can’t go. I don’t want to be stuck paying for school again for him to only go short intervals when it’s not shut down.