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[quote=Anonymous]DS has been in a lovely home daycare for the past 2 years.  Love the providers, love the coziness, love the attention he gets (8 children and 2 adults, all kids between 1-3 years old).  For a host of reasons though, we are potentially looking to switch him to a center/preschool + before and after.

We toured 2 centers this week.  Granted, we were there at 3:30/4:00, so it was the end of the day, but OMG it was chaos at both.  24 kids in a room with a teacher and 2 assistants.  Lots of screaming/squealing, running around inside, etc.  I was so overwhelmed after 2 minutes that I asked to leave and talk outside.

Is this normal?  Do I just need to expect that afternoons are always crazy at centers?  DS was overwhelmed too (but that's to be expected--he's super sensitive and introverted which is why we chose a home daycare to start).  Do all the kids just get used to it?

I'm sure I sound naive, but man...I would need earplugs to be in those rooms longer than 10 minutes.[/quote]

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