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[quote=Anonymous]Former parent here.  We switched from Franklin to a play-base preschool.  I'm sure montessori is great, but I just never really *got* it, and I didn't love that I really didn't understand what DS was up to all day.  I also think play-based suits DS better.  He's the type of kid that, left up to him, would stay home and play with his toys all day (over pretty much anything, not just school).  When I ask him what his favorite thing about school is he says "the toys."

My only real complaint w/ Franklin is that I felt like they weren't great about parental involvement.  They seemed to have the attitude of "thanks, but we've got this" when it comes to the classroom.  We were only in the toddler program, so maybe it's different in the older classrooms.  But there aren't a lot of opportunities for parents to volunteer in the classroom, nor was there anything along the lines of weekly reports (DS's class now sends a weekly update of what they've been doing all week, which is great, because I can use that to ask him more directed questions about school.  So for instance, when they read a specific book last week that was mentioned in the report, I bought an interactive e-book for the iPad that we played with and DS was really excited about it.  They also send us the lyrics to songs they sing, which is fun.  Somewhat related to that, I feel like the new school does more to integrate parents and establish a community.  I met a few parents at Franklin, but far fewer.  In DS's current class, which is actually bigger than his Franklin class, I know all of the kids and probably 75% of the parents (both moms and dads).

Loved the nature program, but I do wish the playground were bigger.

DS's Franklin teacher was always very responsive to emails and phone calls, though.

Randy is odd, but honestly, I don't think she has an huge impact on your day-to-day.  We liked our classroom teacher very much.[/quote]

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