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I'm a current parent of a YY PK student, and can absolutely see what you're talking about re the open house presentation.  It seems that the presentations are made by administrators who don't have access to fairly basic information that a prospective parent would want.  I've been wondering what I as a newbie parent can do.

In my case, I had questions about how the PK program addressed basic socialization issues (making friends, learning to wipe one's nose, etc.).  The admin making the presentation looked at me like I had two heads--she didn't even understand the question, let alone have information on what the program does.  Again, I had to go to current parents to get my questions answered.  [/quote]

Really?
Teach your kid how to wipe his/her nose him/herself and shut up. Maybe they were annoyed because you're an annoying person. As for PA and admins "listening" to you---guess what. they don't read dcum because it would be like purposely sticking sharp sticks in their eyes.[/quote]
Basic socialization is one of the purposes of PK.  And there are current YY parents who are reading this who are interested in some of the issues being raised here, and will push for some changes as we're able.

Are you a current parent? How many years do your kids have left in the program?[/quote]

I am a current parent who has been there since the beginning of the school. I never expected a teacher to teach my kid how to wipe his nose. YY is an immersion school. The focus is both school readiness and language immersion. I'm sure if you read the handbook, talked to your child's teacher, and then maybe met with an administrator if your individual questions still weren't answered, then you'd be fine. Frankly, if you're this unhappy already that you're whining on a public forum that in no way can help answer your questions, you should find another school option. [/quote]
I think you need to work on your reading skills.  In response to a complaint about information given out at prospective parent presentations, I said that I agreed that the presentations really need improvement, and gave my own example of a basic question that wasn't adequately answered at a presentation.  I found answers in other places and chose to enroll my child.  Now that I'm part of the community, I want to do my part to improve the prospective parent presentations, since if I hadn't had acquaintances at the school before enrollment time, there would have been no way for me to learn about an important aspect of any early childhood program.

Since you're still confused, I[b]'ll add that YY does indeed look after basic socialization skills--PKers are given tools to prevent them from peeing on themselves (and there's extra clothing on hand when they do), they're counseled not to put sticks in each others' ears (and reprimanded appropriately when they do), etc[/b].[/quote]

Levity--thank you!  [/quote]

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