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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC went to a private preschool where they were very adamant about not teaching academics.  My DC had no trouble in K, was an early reader, and is still advanced for her age.

We both work, and she attended this program full-time, so it's not like I was staying home with her and giving her reading lessons.  We just read to her, had a lot of reading and writing material around, had toys with letters on them (pretty standard stuff).  You'd be amazed what kids pick up.  There no real need for a teacher to go over at circle time the "letter of the week."[/quote]

This is reassuring - we read to him morning and night (and always have), but unfortunately are only with him for 1-2 hours max per day on weekdays.

We're looking at preschools in NW DC west of Rock Creek Park (NCRC, Aidan, Little Folks). These schools all go through age 5, so we would plan to use these "preschools" as our "kindergarten." When asked about reading programming on my tours, the administrators stressed that the schools are purely play-based but that their children do tend to pick up reading skills. I guess it makes me insecure that perhaps these schools are leaving it to SAHPs (or parents with 9-5 jobs) to teach reading.[/quote]

None of these programs have kindergarten.  They go through 5 because most kids are already 5 when PreK ends.

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Ooops I missed Aidan on your list —plenty of academics there and they do have Kindergarten[/quote]

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