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Correct! Good preschools hire with prior early child development experience and college degrees.  Daycare will hire anyone with babysitting experience.  All of the new hires seem to have none of that.  You go to daycare so they can care for your kids and you go to preschool so they can educate your kids (whether play based or not).  [/quote]

Love the massive generalizations about child care providers set up to serve parents who WOH.  DD attends a center where her teachers either have college degrees or are in the process of getting them.  And the lead and assistant teachers are required to complete early childhood development coursework per MD state licensing requirements.  The idea that a "daycare" couldn't possibly be providing any kind of education is just laughable.[/quote]

Seriously. My daughter goes to a center that accommodates kids ranging from infants all the way through kindergarten (yes, they have a fully licensed kindergarten program). They are fully accredited and received 5 stars in MD's school rating system.

I seriously wonder what people think the distinctions between "daycare" and "preschool" are. It isn't hours, as you have a place like School for Friends that provides full-time care and yet is considered a preschool on here. It's not ownership structure (though many people on here think it is). Some argue is NAEYC accreditation, but there are Bright Horizons locations with NAEYC accreditation.

Honestly, the reality is there is no real distinction between daycare and preschool. The people who like to pretend there's a distinction tend to be the ones who like to think they send their kids to a superior place than others. They're haughty and pretentious people. [/quote]

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