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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But daycares are also taking note of development right? Our daycare actually uses gold.

It’s a misconception that DCPS PK teachers test. Watching a student engage in conversation is 1) their job 2) not testing 3) technically gold. So I’m confused about gold taking up so much of their teaching time. If your child’s teacher is entering gold during instruction then yes that’s a problem but that’s not how it should be set up and doesn’t represent dc PK. [/quote]

[b]daycares have MUCH less bureaucracy and red tape to deal with.[/b] TS Gold takes up a lot of time, whether during school or after. It did not add anything to my kid’s PK experience at all. Daycares are geared towards taking care of kids, not instruction and assessment. [/quote]

yes and no. the licensing requirements (ratio, nutrition, etc.) in many cases are stricter for daycares than for public PK. And day cares have to deal with advertising, rent, tuition collection, and other stuff that at DCPS at least is more centralized.[/quote]

I have no idea what TS Gold is.  My kid loved daycare and loved PK3.  I didn't notice any discernible difference in the experience.

Actually, there was one--the kids did get less time outside in PK3, especially during the winter.  However, they still seemed to do a lot of fun activities inside--it's not like they were sitting still all day.  To me this was a minor gripe in the grand scheme.  There were still many other positives to PK3, and overall I felt my child was well-loved and cared for.  I'm sure this varies by school and teacher, but ours was a pretty small school where the PK3 teacher was handpicked by the principal among several teachers who wanted the PK3 position.[/quote]

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