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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right now my 3 year old is in a preschool program that has been great. The only downfall is there’s only 1-2 kids he will go to elementary with, although they are good friends of mine. In contrast, there’s another program down the street that 10 children he will go to elementary with are in. The current school has a great reputation for preparing the kids for school and he has a late birthday. The second school is play based entirely so doesn’t prepare kids as much academically for kinder. I absolutely love the teacher he will have at our current school for prek-4. Would you switch for the sole purpose of having that fun community of peers and kids prior to kindergarten?  I’m friends with them but we miss a lot of the get together because school doesn’t align. [/quote]

Kids from play based curriculum do better in life, so I'd move him for the better curriculum. [/quote]

Not necessarily.  We tried both for my child.  Play based was a waste of time and just child care.  Changed to an "academic" preschool with academics, structure and routines and child thrived.  It set him up really well for K and future success.  Child thriving years later in school.  Having learned to read early, and given basic writing, math and other skills early on really helped.[/quote]

I will say that our play-based preschool focused a lot more on academic preparedness the year leading up to kindergarten.  It was a lot of play up to that and I was having my doubts a bit but it worked out fine. DS was more than prepared for kindergarten.[/quote]

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