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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I posted earlier but before the pp who is blind posted had NOT caught that you did not grow up in the US. I imagine education is different all over the world and in different areas of the US--there are parts of the country where no doubt they would be teaching your child that there is no such thing as evolution. I'm not sure what the daycare teacher had in might about "social science" and I think it is silly to think there are academic competencies that are required by age 4 other than basic counting and most of the alphabet and basic colors (yes, I know a child who by age 3 could tell me what asteroids are in the Kuiper Belt--and btw her mom works as a cook in a sports bar and is a broke single parent who got a ged instead of a h.s. diploma, speaking of education).  Anyway . . . . children's section of public library, just go exploring. Keep your eyes out for kid science and culture related events at libraries, museums, zoos, etc. And don't let that daycare teacher intimidate you.

Stuff we learn keeps changing anyway (speaking as someone who learned geography when Rhodesia was a country and first heard of Archaea when my kid took biology)--shoot, even someone who graduated from h.s. not that many years ago has lost a planet from the lineup. [/quote]

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