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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who call anything before kindergarten "school."

If your child is under the age of 5, he is not going to school. He is going to preschool, or daycare or moms' day out. Stop trying to justify it by calling it school - drop him off, let him have fun and socialize and do what you've got to/want to do. It's ok. Really. [/quote]

Kids think of it as school and know that word.

Get a job. You're so pathetic and transparent.[/quote]

I'm the OP of that comment and I seem to have touched a nerve. Here's the irony: I've always worked full time. My kids went to daycare. They thought of it as that and knew that word. When they started kindergarten they went to school.

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Ok, so did you feel like you needed to "justify" sending them to daycare?  Probably not.  If you did, stop projecting on the rest of us.  It's just a word.  I can't believe anyone would care enough for it to bother them.[/quote]

No, it bother me too.  I [b]sacrifice [/b]to have a nanny for my son and pay a proper preschool tuition for three hours every morning.  Daycare is NOT SCHOOL.  It is daycare.  [/quote]

talk about projecting.  that's on you, dude.  i don't need to sacrifice because my kid, who's reading quite well going into kindergarten, went to plain old daycare.  but sometimes i call it school.  because it DOESN'T MATTER.[/quote]

If it DOESN'T MATTER then call it college or the circus. [b] You called it "school" because you were trying to make it sound better than daycare.  Admit it.  [/b][/quote]

I call it "school" because that's what my three-year-old calls it.  All the people I am even talking to her "school" about are already well aware that she's in daycare, and I don't make a secret of where she's at.  I'm not trying to fool anyone or make myself feel better.  I like where she's at, she likes where she's at, and if she wants to call it school, I just can't be bothered to correct her.

Also, she likes her daycare and likes going there, and if we can associate those positive feelings with "school," I'm all for it.  I want her to be excited to go to school.  [/quote]

She  didn't decide on her own to call it school. She learned it from you. And you probably called at school because it sounded better than daycare.

And as someone else has pointed out, she's in for a hell of a shock when she goes.
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A "hell of a shock?"  Really?  My kid was in a daycare for 5 years, in the last 3 in the preschool and then pre-K rooms.  They did all the same sorts of things kids do in a preschool that calls itself a preschool rather than a daycare.  They had a curriculum.  In fact, even the infant room has a curriculum.  He started this year in K knowing his letters, numbers, colors, can read more pretty well for his age, and can do a bit more than basic addition and subtraction.  His writing could be better, but the academic stuff is no problem for him.  The line up/sit at a desk/listen to teacher, etc. stuff is no problem - because again, he's done it all before.  Recess is no problem.  Obviously.  Lunch is no problem.  Delicious!  They do circle time!  When it's time to choose what they want to play with in the classroom, he calls it "centers" because that's what they called it at daycare.  The classroom aspects of public school were the easiest transition for him to make.  What TF is it you people think is so different about a regular preschool vs. a daycare?  Do you think that he was locked in a cage for 12 hours a day rather than learning something?  That they stick 50 kids in a large room and let them run around like Lord of the Flies?

All of you people insisting that daycare just isn't school sure sound like you're the ones trying to justify something to yourselves.  Not really sure what that is or why you care what comes out of my mouth when I talk about where my kid is going during the day.[/quote]

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