Reply to Does 3 year old have to be fully potty trained for PK3 charter school?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Does 3 year old have to be fully potty trained for PK3 charter school?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find these policies insane. They are talking about kids, many of whom are barely 3 or even 2 at the beginning of the year.

"In the United States, the average age for achieving potty training is around 2 1/2 for girls and around 3 for boys, the National Network for Child Care reports"

"Today the figure for 2-year-olds [who are toilet trained] is just 4 percent, according to a large-scale Philadelphia study. Only 60 percent of children have achieved mastery of the toilet by 36 months, the study found, and 2 percent remain untrained at the age of 4 years."

We can discuss whether or not US kids start the whole thing too late, but the idea that a US school is making rules like this is absurd.[/quote]

We are not in DC and most private preschools require 3 year olds to be potty trained.  Some accidents are okay, but a child who is not potty trained is not.  I know of several friends who sent their 3 and 4 year olds to church nursery schools because they didn't require potty training, while all the formal preschools did.

I understand with universal preschool that some changes occur.  It's not insane though, for a preschool to want the children to be potty trained.  It's the usual rule, in areas where there's no universal preschool.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics