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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The data just doesn’t support group learning before age 3 or so.  If your goal is to ‘school’ a two year old you would hire a nanny because they are learning from a single caregiver and not from peers.  The peers are only competitors for the caregivers attention.  Any center that is trying to sell you on STEM classes for 2 year olds is ripping you off. They are usually just trying to distract you from the caregiver ratio.

Look for a high caregiver ratio not a curriculum or ‘school’ before age 3/4.  Often an in-home daycare is better in this regard, frankly.

After age 3/4 they do learn from peers so there is definite benefit to a school environment.

Let’s just be honest about the tough choices all parents make and not let an industry try to sell us on non-evidence based nonsense.

https://criticalscience.medium.com/on-the-science-of-daycare-4d1ab4c2efb4#:~:text=Children%20spending%20long%20hours%20in,negative%20effect%20on%20later%20behavior.
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I can't begin to describe how disappointing it is that the supposedly educated people posting on DCUM continue to cite this very biased and deceptive blog post. I urge anyone who is making decisions based on it to read the actual studies cited by the author (whose identity and credentials are not published here). This blog post is not a summary of "the science", it is one person's opinion based on cherry picking and sometimes outright misrepresentation of research literature.[/quote]

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