When is daycare "school?"

[Anonymous]

school = an institution for the purpose of education.

daycare = a place, program, or organization that takes care of children during the day usually while their family members are at work

child care = care a child receives that is not from the mother, father, or guardian. Child care can be inside or outside of the home by a relative or non-relative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. I hate when people refer to their daycares as school.

That's a totally reasonable thing to get riled up about, because there are no worse tragedies in the world that deserve our attention. In fact, we should keep beating this dead horse for a few more dozen posts, lest we gain some sense of perspective and realize how much energy we expend on our petty concerns. Wouldn’t that be the real tragedy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. I hate when people refer to their daycares as school.

That's a totally reasonable thing to get riled up about, because there are no worse tragedies in the world that deserve our attention. In fact, we should keep beating this dead horse for a few more dozen posts, lest we gain some sense of perspective and realize how much energy we expend on our petty concerns. Wouldn’t that be the real tragedy.

Look at the time and energy you just spend reading and posting on a meaningless thread when you could have used that time and energy to save the world or end hunger or prevent a tragedy. Shame on you.

[Anonymous]

The center my kids go to calls itself school -- in the daily reports that are sent home, in parent emails, in everything. The daycare providers are called teachers. Even in the baby rooms, they sing songs to the kids about going to school.

I had no idea anybody cared when I call my kids' daycare school. That's just what we call it. It never occurred to me that I was offending you by saying "I have to go pick up little Johnny at school." I'm not judging you or your childcare choices. I have no opinion on whether you say nanny or sitter or au pair. I'm shocked that this many people care about this.

[Anonymous]

So does your 9 month old get held back a year if she didn't stack her blocks right? Do you prep your kids for the curriculum and the testing of expected outcomes? I can just see prep centers for 1 year olds being trained how to stack the blocks better so they will do better in meeting the outcomes of the curriculum! If you played with blocks at home do you let the 'teacher' know that you did extra homework and maybe even worked a little ahead in the curriculum - stacking 4 blocks instead of just 3? What if your child is sick and misses a lesson, do you have to do make-up work on block stacking?

The thought of infants and toddlers being in school makes me laugh. Do any SAHMs refer to themselves as homeschooling their infants and toddlers and to the play and learning activities they do during the day as curriculum?

[Anonymous]

Everyone in life is a teacher, just like everyone is a learner. We all teach others. A certified teacher is different. Just like being a registered nurse and saying you are a certified nurse is different from nursing your child or nursing your family back to health. Very few day care centers actually have certified teachers.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes the amount of vitriol in this board gives me pause. And human nature is such that even those writing these things, most likely think of themselves as good, decent people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So does your 9 month old get held back a year if she didn't stack her blocks right? Do you prep your kids for the curriculum and the testing of expected outcomes? I can just see prep centers for 1 year olds being trained how to stack the blocks better so they will do better in meeting the outcomes of the curriculum! If you played with blocks at home do you let the 'teacher' know that you did extra homework and maybe even worked a little ahead in the curriculum - stacking 4 blocks instead of just 3? What if your child is sick and misses a lesson, do you have to do make-up work on block stacking?

The thought of infants and toddlers being in school makes me laugh. Do any SAHMs refer to themselves as homeschooling their infants and toddlers and to the play and learning activities they do during the day as curriculum?

Oh please just STFU. Really, get a life!

[Anonymous]

We called it daycare and our son had a very positive association with the word. He loved it! He didn't have any adult baggage about daycare.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Real bunch of judgmental assholes in this forum. Guess they are starting to creep over from General Parenting. Bummer.

Oh, and who the hell cares? Sheesh.

You're being pretty judgemental yourself, don't ya think? Just sayin. People can have stupid pet peeves without being assholes, I'm sure you have some yourself.

Just pointing out fact. They are using their pet peeves to criticize people (trying to make themselves feel better so they call it school? Really?). These are not just their pet peeves. They are being assholes. Mountains and molehills.

Is everyone who disagrees with you an a-hole? Good grief.

[Anonymous]

OMG, when I started this thread I had no idea it would manifest into this. I admitted it was a lame thing to get annoyed by, which was probably why I was venting in an anonymous forum. I was also genuinely curious how it was referred to these days, it's been a long time since my kids were in daycare.

So anywho, sorry y'all. Maybe we should just let this die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So does your 9 month old get held back a year if she didn't stack her blocks right? Do you prep your kids for the curriculum and the testing of expected outcomes? I can just see prep centers for 1 year olds being trained how to stack the blocks better so they will do better in meeting the outcomes of the curriculum! If you played with blocks at home do you let the 'teacher' know that you did extra homework and maybe even worked a little ahead in the curriculum - stacking 4 blocks instead of just 3? What if your child is sick and misses a lesson, do you have to do make-up work on block stacking?

The thought of infants and toddlers being in school makes me laugh. Do any SAHMs refer to themselves as homeschooling their infants and toddlers and to the play and learning activities they do during the day as curriculum?

Sorry, but you seem to be about as mature as my 2 yo. He takes toys and calls "Mine!" and doesn't want others to play with it. You take a word "School!" and don't want others to use it anyway other than how you use it. Grow up. Use it the way you want and stop wasting time and energy trying to teach others how to use it the way you want.

[Anonymous]

I always called daycare school (to my kid). i.e. "let's get ready for school." Though, technically, I realize it is not school and it is daycare. I wouldn't post a pic of me bringing her to daycare at 10 weeks with the caption of "First day of school!"

[Anonymous]

My rule of thumb was it was a "day care" if there were babies at the facility, if it's one that starts at age 2 1/2 or 3 where you pretty much have to potty trained it's a "preschool". But mainly, we call it "school" at our house because DD wants to big just like her big brother the 2nd grader and say she goes to school (in her words, "day care is for babies"). Not sure it really matters one way or the other!

[Anonymous]

PP here, but I'd still reserve the "it's Sally's first day of school" FB posts for K.