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[quote=Anonymous]I’m the PP. There’s a huge difference between daycare programs and high quality early childhood programs. Daycares often hire employees who have only Hs degrees, often lack higher education, and may, at most, have a CDA (and May only get it because they are required to if their school is NAEYC accredited). Turnover in these programs is extremely high. In contrast, high quality early childhood programs hire lead teachers with bachelor’s degrees or master’s degrees in early childhood education, often the assistants have a CDA and are pursuing a BS or higher degree, and they invest extensively in professional development that goes far beyond basics of how kids learn through play or health and safety basics or how to teach a particular curriculum but focuses on advanced teaching concepts in early childhood like scaffolding, anti bias education, the project approach, implementing Reggio Emilia environments, creating an inclusive environment, meaningful documentation, etc. Having worked in ECE and toured over three dozen preschools and daycares in the DMV I can tell you there are a small handful that fit into the latter category, and they are most commonly the lab schools at universities (Like the program at UMD which is incredible). The reason is that our government and society refuse to invest in early childhood in meaningful ways.

I’m not saying daycare is bad, or that kids don’t learn there. But there is a difference between a high quality ECE program like SFF was and a daycare. You can’t hire daycare workers from Bright Horizons with a couple years experience and a CDA and expect them to be as good of a teacher as a master’s prepared educator who had been in the field for 5, 10 or 20 years. Just calling a program an elite preschool or a high quality early childhood program doesn’t make it so. I know as parents we all want to believe our kids are getting the best education but honestly having seen some great and amazing schools I know personally my kid is not getting that — and it’s because we just can’t afford it.
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