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What I said was that Beauvoir follows a "developmentally appropriate curriculum."  The curriculum for each of these schools is very different.

Beauvoir is not a progressive curriculum per se, but it is very much focused on teaching concepts through play and experiential learning, [b]which is developmentally appropriate for the early grades[/b]. It's why some parents complain about it be "too soft" on kids, as if somehow being hard on children helps learning.

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You keep saying this, as if you're trying to convince yourself. "Play based" is fine through K or 1st but at some point kids need real expectations. As a PP said, BVR is more of the coddling, "everyone gets a trophy" mindset. That may be fine and necessary for some kids, but I think children rise to the level expected of them.[/quote]

I don’t need to prove anything, PP. You are the one just repeating an opinion that is not based in fact.

Talk to any halfway competent developmental psychologist, and they will tell you that rigid academic, curricula result only in more anxiety around learning, not more learning. These are consistent findings in studies that have compared play-based vs academic approaches in the early grades. [/quote]

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