S/O Daycare is NOT SCHOOL
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My kid's day care has a preschool component. Once they're two, they follow a curriculum that is literally identical to the one followed by several well-regarded preschools in our area. So in your mind, OP, is it still a day care just because there are infants there too?
My husband and I usually refer to it between the two of us as day care, just out of habit. But my daughter calls it school, because that's what her teachers call it. And yes, they are teachers, who receive payment in exchange for reading to her, teaching her letters, numbers, Spanish, songs, etc. Seems a lot like school to me. At least as much as any other preschool. |
Anonymous
| My kids attend a church-run center. It offers both a half-day and full-day program, starting at 18 months. The teachers are trained together and the curriculum (Reggio) is the same in both the half-day and full-day program. The only difference is that the full-day kids eat lunch at the center, take a two hour nap in the afternoon, and have extra playground time in the morning and after naptime. Do my kids attend a "preschool" or a "daycare"? I have no idea. The church calls it a "child development center" so I'm confused. OP, could you also remind me again why I should care about the label when my kids are happy and my oldest was well-prepared for Kindergarten? I thought that was the most important thing, but maybe I am wrong. |
Anonymous
I DID LOL! |
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| FFS. This thread is ridiculous!! |
Anonymous
Yeah, like, over and over again, "My two year old cried when I try to drop him off at pre-school." What bullshit. |
Anonymous
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor roman. Discuss. Grow up, OP. |
Anonymous
Why would it ever be relevant to the conversation if someone calls it daycare or preschool unless you are a SAHM who really just wants to put down her WOHM neighbor? Seriously? Because you people are the only ones who care what we call it. We certainly don't, and if it makes you feel better about not having a career to think that we feel bad about sending out kid to preschool/daycare/hawaii, then that's fine. I'm sorry that you're so unhappy with your life that you have to come up with the dumbest reasons ever to insult mine! |
Anonymous
Wait, what???? Mind blown. 
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Anonymous
+1 And explain daycare is a different place where you are not schooled but cared for during the day while I do something else. |
Anonymous
No, it's not. I, for one, will stand up for the crying two year olds whose mothers are baffled they are not into going to "school" at such a young age. |
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It is hard not to gag when a new mom at work brags about how much her 4 month old is learning at school.
It's better than hearing her plan for a natural birth for 6 months, I'll give her that, but it's a little much. |
Anonymous
What if the daycare does provide educational instruction equivalent to a PK3 or PK4 program? |
Anonymous
| Well, I for one am going to start calling my kid's DAYCARE college, as it costs more than I paid in tuition each year for my undergrad degree. |
Anonymous
If you had gone to preschool instead of daycare, you would have known this. |