S/O Daycare is NOT SCHOOL

[Anonymous]

DD was in daycare and then nursery school located on the campus where I attended law school 1983 - 1986.

Don't see the term "nursery school" much anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mothers do call daycare "school" to make themselves feel better about leaving their child for the day. Yes, I am sure the child learns in daycare but that is not the reason daycares exist. Daycares exist to care for babies, toddlers and preschoolers when the parents are away/working.

And SAHMs are annoyed at parents calling preschool classes within daycare "school," because it makes them feel better about having their child home all day instead of learning and socializing with other children. They don't want to anyone to think other child are learning while their kid is hanging out at the local playground. I have had children in both traditional half-day preschool and the preschool class in a daycare. The curriculum is nearly identical. My first went to traditional preschool. My second is in the preschool class in a daycare. I'm not moving the second child to another school because I have seen the curriculum in both - the kids spend their days doing the same things. We call them both school. Suck it if you don't like it.

[Anonymous]

OMG -- arrest me. My kid called his playgroup "school" because it was held in an old school. I thought it was cute.

He now goes to a traditional part time program for 4yos who will enter kindergarten next year. id like to add "pre-K" into the mix of terms we are fighting about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD was in daycare and then nursery school located on the campus where I attended law school 1983 - 1986.

Don't see the term "nursery school" much anymore.

Haha, very true!I wonder why that is? I'm 37 & remember calling the school I went to at 3 & 4 (in 1981-83) "nursery school". When I was about 12 or 13, however, I asked the 3-year-old I babysat for if he liked nursery school & he looked at me like I had 2 heads & said "What's nursery school? I go to preschool!".So I guess the term"nursery school" fell out of use at some point between the early 80s & early 90s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mothers do call daycare "school" to make themselves feel better about leaving their child for the day. Yes, I am sure the child learns in daycare but that is not the reason daycares exist. Daycares exist to care for babies, toddlers and preschoolers when the parents are away/working.

Ok. I won't call daycare "school", if you don't call staying at home "work" or your "job".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you care what other people call their child care?

Seriously, it's sad that you're so invested in this.

There is a national focus now on early childhood education. The stark line you draw between daycare and "school" is blurring.

No it isn't and won't until we embrace DAYCARE as a needed and beneficial educational institution. The only reason you want to call it "school" is because you feel it is not as bad to leave your child all day if it is school.

I do embrace daycare as a great thing, & I'm always surprised and roll my eyes (internally, for politeness' sake) whrn people look down on it. And I think mostly I've referred to my kids' child care centers as daycare, but sometimes I call it school, because it is seriously not the big deal you're making it out to be. Daycare is a reality for 80 zillion women in this area and doesn't need its honor defended. When my daughter's CDC has a comparable curriculum to her DCPS preschool classroom, and her DCPS offers aftercare until 6, preschool vs daycare becomes a distinction without a difference. Insisting on using separate terms reinforces the stigma you claim you're trying to dispel.

[Anonymous]

If y'all really need something important to get fired up about: The chickpea is neither a chick, nor a pea. Discuss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mothers do call daycare "school" to make themselves feel better about leaving their child for the day. Yes, I am sure the child learns in daycare but that is not the reason daycares exist. Daycares exist to care for babies, toddlers and preschoolers when the parents are away/working.

Ok. I won't call daycare "school", if you don't call staying at home "work" or your "job".

Preach!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If y'all really need something important to get fired up about: The chickpea is neither a chick, nor a pea. Discuss.

Ha!

I cant even imagine caring if somebody uses the word school instead of daycare. Hysterical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mothers do call daycare "school" to make themselves feel better about leaving their child for the day. Yes, I am sure the child learns in daycare but that is not the reason daycares exist. Daycares exist to care for babies, toddlers and preschoolers when the parents are away/working.

Ok. I won't call daycare "school", if you don't call staying at home "work" or your "job".

Preach!

[Anonymous]

Whose arguments are you getting tired of, OP? I haven't heard this come up once IRL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mothers do call daycare "school" to make themselves feel better about leaving their child for the day. Yes, I am sure the child learns in daycare but that is not the reason daycares exist. Daycares exist to care for babies, toddlers and preschoolers when the parents are away/working.

Ok. I won't call daycare "school", if you don't call staying at home "work" or your "job".

Preach!

BOOM!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I ever start to care enough about other parents calling daycare "school" to start a thread on here ranting about it, someone just please shoot me in the face and put me out of my misery. Jesus Christ.

+1

I'm still waiting for someone on the other thread to explain to me what kind of rude awakening my kid who just started K is allegedly in for because we sometimes called his daycare "school." We've been in school for two weeks now. Should I just wait with baited breath?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent whose child went to daycare at the university where I was completing my degree. It was an amazing daycare center probably better than most preschools - but it wasn't preschool. It was daycare.

I am not ashamed or feel the need to justify my choice to send my child to daycare rather than continue to stay home with her (I did for her first year) or hire a full time nanny. But it was daycare. She was 12 months old when she started and she was in daycare, not school.

I get tired of this argument. We are lying when we call daycare "school" and it makes it seem like we are trying to make it seem better than it is. Daycare cares for my child primarily and teaches secondarily. School teaches my child primarily and cares secondarily.

Now DD actually is in an all day preschool from 9 to 3. Not a daycare.

You obviously have not seen a good daycare in spite of your supposed university experience. If your preschool is 9-3 I have news for you - it is a daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mothers do call daycare "school" to make themselves feel better about leaving their child for the day. Yes, I am sure the child learns in daycare but that is not the reason daycares exist. Daycares exist to care for babies, toddlers and preschoolers when the parents are away/working.

Ok. I won't call daycare "school", if you don't call staying at home "work" or your "job".

Preach!

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