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[quote=Anonymous]Curious what preschool this is.

Honestly, I think this is a very ordinary disappointment at the start of the school year that kids have to deal with, but it's still okay to feel sad about it. (Previous posters have been, in my opinion, unnecessarily mean to OP. Even if your life is worse, it's still okay for other people to be sad.)

It's [i]much[/i] harder for preschool kids to maintain friendships over mediums like Zoom. My 4-year-old is disappointed not only that they won't see their friends in their classroom, but every opportunity to see kids outside their cohort, in person at school, has been deliberately cut off to reduce the chance of transmission. Otherwise the kids have gotten playground time together, so DC has been able to keep up with their friends from other classes, interact with older/younger kids from beforecare/aftercare, etc. on the playground, etc.

Some kids are different enough at a young age to usefully require something different than the other preschoolers. At my kid's preschool, last year they had a PK4 special reading group for the kids who were already fluently reading chapter books, so the kids could read books in common and have discussions, rather than being taught the alphabet.[/quote]

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