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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher poster here.  You are correct, I can not claim knowledge of every school everywhere.   My opinion is just based purely on my own experiemces at my schools

From my three school experiences.  In addition to my child's school experience which has never been the same as where I teach.  The classrooms, teachers, units of study I saw at my DCPS school and PDs were superior to the other places I have worked.

FWIW. Of the big three, I have only toured GDS. And that was very similar to the DCPS.  Magical, love of learning in early childhood.   I'm sure several others have the same feel.  [/quote]

pp again.   I'd have to agree to an extent, that if we're only talking about preK and K -- "early childhood" -- then all of these schools are going to be warm and sweet.  I don't know what OP meant exactly by "early YEARS."

If s/he meant "K all the way through 5th grade," I feel strongly there are very important differences in curriculum and the day-to-day academic experience among Janney/Mann/Key/Lafayette/Murch and Beauvoir/GDS/Sidwell.

These differences have already been discussed in many threads, but generally, it has to do with test-driven curriculum; huge differences in humanities offerings in 1st-5th; and music-studio art-PE frequency.  And foreign language [i]during the day, not as an aftercare choice for a fee.[/i][/quote]

Thanks. OP here, your point about what I meant with "early years" is very valid. I meant lower school, but with an emphasis in prek, k, 1st, and 2nd. I know it might sound confusing. I am interested in the whole LS experience, but as of now I want to focus on those "early years" as I read they are the most important ones. One of my work colleagues is an education specialist, she has told me as well how important those "early years" are. She gave me a ton of statistics, not only about ECD, but about 1st and 2nd too. [/quote]

It is critical for children that come from a low literate environments at home or who are not encouraged or supporting at home. This is the area of most research in literacy and reading, children from language rich and high SES environments are the control group in most research I've read not the focus!!!!  [/quote]

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