Preschool/PreK
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Looking for recommendations/insight into PG County preschools/pre-k. I’m considering St. Matthews EEC, UMD CYC and Woodstream Christian Academy, but am open to others in the Upper Marlboro/Bowie area. Specifically, I want to know how prepared the students are for kindergarten and what schools they attend thereafter. Also, any thoughts on chain daycare Denetera, ie. SKC, Kiddie Acedemy, kindercare. |
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| My 2yr old is at SKC and I've had a great experience with them so far. I do have her on a waitlist at Highland Park Christian Academy due to their tuition being cheaper and the academy being closer (10 min) to my job. I toured a lot of daycares in PG for infant care, and SKC was the only place that was decent in my price range.The infant care in this county is subpar it's ridiculous. |
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Which SKC? I hear bad things about the Watkins location |
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| I would t do any of the SKC! All locations are good Veronica’s and poorly staffed. |
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My son snatched my phone! I was saying wouldn’t do any SKCs! Overpriced and poor staff! Ghetto |
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If you are a federal civil servant, you should consider the GSFC Child Development Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. I work on center and my children just finished the MD State accredited K program there. The school does pre-school from age 2 through K and the waitlist is long. Many people put their children on the waiting list when born just to have the option of the preschool, if they want it. Priority goes to NASA civil servants, then NASA contractors, then other agency Civil Servants, but most years at least some children from Civil Servants of other agencies get invitations, it's only a question of which age group has openings not filled from the current wait list.
This is a very strong pre-school curriculum that include some emphasis on STEM (of course, we are NASA after all). My children were had 3 field trips a year, had visiting scientists from around NASA that gave demonstrations with liquid nitrogen, entymologists who brought several insect species to show, and a vulcanologist who was on travel in Hawaii and Skyped with them from near the site of the active lava flow in Hawaii. They met the king of Sweden when he visited Goddard, a current astronaut in the astronaut program, and Senator Cardin. They get walking trips on center to visit our clean room when the James Webb telescope instruments were there, our on-site robotics lab, the post office on center. I think the entire K class is a bit advanced now because the teacher is phenomenal. |
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Ghetto? Did you really just post that? |
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Yes I did! I’m giving honest feedback! |