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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I kind of hate it already, and they haven't even started yet. (OP here.) Our older kids did play based only, but were at a really good play based school where the kids managed to art-project their way to good math and literacy skills before K. We moved, and our current play based preschool is just too loosey-goosey even for me. Kids can sign up for any day(s) of the week, there's no real weekly plan for learning that builds through the week (because maybe some kids are only there Wed/Fri or whatever). They were also very strong in certain of their opinions about what a 4 yr old is capable of doing, and did not care to look at each child as an individual. So, we've decided to switch to Montessori for her last year before K to at least give her an opportunity to learn a different skill set.

In good news, my girls have no shortage of play on their lives. There are 4 kids in our family and we are all about make believe and plays and creative use of anything we can get our hands on. So I don't think they'll miss out on that aspect. I'll just have to grit my teeth and bear it as the uber-Montessorians glow about "grace". I am admittedly a huge pragmatist and not fully bought in to the idea that Montessori is the only way. Frankly, we're only there because we can't make the really good play based school happen anymore. [/quote]

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