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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Don’t buy into the farce that the Kindergarteners teach the younger kids - they do not at all.  [/quote]
Ballet PP here. Want to respond to this point. In my experience, the kindergarteners are not in any way tasked with teaching younger kids complicated things like math or reading.  When my children have described giving a lesson to a younger child, it is always something from practical life, like sponge squeezing, laundry folding, food prep, color mixing, and so on.  Most kindergarteners are capable of teaching these types of tasks to younger children, and it's a really positive experience for both when managed well.

The only other example where I've seen kindergarteners do a teaching-like thing is reading aloud to younger kids. But that is not really teaching.

[b]When it comes to fundamental pre-academic building blocks like counting, phonemic awareness, and so on, it is teachers giving the lessons and guiding the kids. [/b]Although of course 2 or 3 kids may work together on a work.

Our school is not AMI or AMS certified, so I don't know if their practices are standard.[/quote]

OP here and this thread has gotten derailed by Montessori vs. play-based. At this point I am neutral - I want to go with whichever is the best fit for my child, which includes an adult spending a reasonable amount of time with said child. And in the two preschools I am considering, the ratios are 24:2, so I don’t see how the teachers will have much time to teach counting, phonemic awareness, etc. one-on-one with the kids. Don’t see how it justifies the $15k tuition, and yet people are definitely signing up...[/quote]

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