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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Private preschools can decide whatever they want to. They are private.  And it's not insane to want the kids potty trained. It IS insane to enroll children who can be as young as 2 and 11 months, expect them to be trained and threaten to kick them out if they aren't. If they want to have a PK3, it comes with very young children and the wide range of development and parenting that accompany them. [/quote]

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