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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t disagree, but if it’s your first kid I understand the panic. Everyone talks about how academic kindergarten is now and most private preschools are very play-based. I’m not saying it’s not reactionary, I just see why they panic.[/quote] That's fair, but a good 'play-based' school is still going to have those Montessori elements of teachers steering kids towards specific skills to master and monitoring their progress; you're not just paying to have somebody lead your kids in fun games all day. My kids' experience with kindergarten was that around half of the kids in their classes - most of whom had gone to one of a couple of local chain preschools - knew most of the material already, were bored out of their minds in math and were reading 'just right' (this was back in the bad old Calkins days) books that were level G or H or whatever the chart considered to be 1st/2nd grade.[/quote]
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