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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a difference. Daycare is childcare for parents’ working hours, and something I consider is for infants/ babies/ young toddlers. A preschool program is… not that. Though a daycare could have a preschool program for their age 3+ learners! Also, I have no problem calling any of the daycare workers teachers (I’m sure they’re teaching the alphabet/ counting/ social skills etc.), but to the pp that said someone with a degree in early childhood development is a teacher, that’s a very different program than early childhood education (where they learn curriculum & instruction, pedagogy, the science of reading, etc.). In my experience, friends that sent their 9 month olds to daycare and called it school just wanted to feel better about sending their kids to daycare. Ps- there’s nothing wrong with daycare!! It’s not a bad thing! Just silly to act like your young baby is learning a curriculum and it’s not just childcare. [/quote]

This is a good distinction. Why would anyone assume that a 12 month old would be in preschool? Daycare is all day childcare. Preschool is a few hours during the day 2-5x/week where the structure and focus is early childhood education. When someone says they’re picking their 4 year old up from preschool at 5:30 pm it’s clear that they’re referring to daycare.[/quote]

So what? The 4 yo thinks of it as preschool, because they are attending a preschool program with before and aftercare built in. They probably call it that at home. Your insistence on calling it daycare is a very adult-centered way of thinking that is focused on social hierarchies. In other words, you sound really shallow.[/quote]

Yes, your daycare is preschool with 6-7 hours of beforecare and aftercare built-in. Does that definition work for you? Also does name calling to diminish people who have different opinions from you make you feel good in real life or do you only do it on online forums? [/quote]

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