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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a bone to pick. I know the research supports play-based learning in the early years, but I can't understand why none of the private DC preschools that my husband and I are considering for our son offer ANY reading programming at all (other than storytimes). I grew up in rural NC in the 80s, and remember learning letters around 3/4, words around 4, and starting to read around 5. I believe that a similar progression is currently taught in DC public schools. Why are the private preschools/kindergartens so averse to this?

We plan to switch our son to a DCPS (Mann) starting in first grade (i.e. after two or three years in private preschool), and it seems to me that the students from public kindergartens may have a leg up. My personal experience was that early readers had ENORMOUS confidence and enjoyed school, while late readers (and by this, I don't mean a specific age but rather being behind the median in their class) struggled and felt frustrated. Since a major predictor of academic success is a student's enjoyment of school, growth mindset, etc., I would suspect that the gap between early and late readers only widens over time and trickles into other subjects.

I suspect many of you will say that reading should be taught at home, but my husband and I both work until 6:30/7 and cannot depend on our Spanish nanny to teach reading fundamentals. Since this is the case, would we be better off in a DCPS kindergarten? Sorry that this rant is all over the place.[/quote]

Why are you thinking that you could send your child to 2 or 3 years of preschool and then have DS got into 1st grade?  You want him to skip Kindergarten?  [/quote]

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