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"That's nice, PP. My DD stopped napping at home when she was 3.5, and her school has been flexible about nap time. Some kids, despite not needing naps themselves, are also not able to be quiet and let OTHER kids sleep in school at that age. I have noticed that many parents do not recognize this - either because they are jerks or because they never experience situations where their child's non-napping affects the sleep of another child. I think that schools need to be more understanding and come up with other activities for kids who don't need that nap, but there are a lot of priorities in the classroom. [/quote]

I don't disagree with you that non-mappers need to let mappers sleep, but there are schools in this city that actually accommodate mappers and non-nappers, while others refuse to even let kids do quiet activities, and insist that all kids lay on their mats and do nothing for 90 minutes.  I find this ridiculous.  Both napping and non-napping are within the scope of developmentally normal behavior at 4 years old.  One shouldn't take precedence over the other--and the expectation that normal behavior should be accepted in the classroom doesn't make me have unreasonable expectations[/quote]

A big reason for this is it is in many cases considered the teachers prep & break time. If the school can't afford extra lunch or nap time staff to watch the kids then the teachers would get no luch, break or prep time. Most DCPS ECE programs don't get funding for extra staff at lunch or playground time. So, nap time has become the only break or prep time for many teachers.  Charters have different funding options so that seems to be more of a choice & how they spend their money. So, that seems to be of a choice of  won't vrs can't. [/quote]

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