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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WHY do people care if someone says preschool instead of daycare? I've even had people correct me when I use the word "teacher" and say it's a "daycare worker." This is not semantics, I believe this is more to put down working parents who use daycare versus SAHMs who use preschool.

FWIW my kids are in Pre-K and a 3 year old program, both at a daycare center. There is a curriculum from 9:30-lunch, then lunch, nap, playground time and then they get picked up. My friends' kids are in Pre-K at a church center and they call it preschool instead because they pick up after lunch. Do people who correct others think that we don't realize it's daycare? It doesn't negate the fact that it's still preschool in the beginning of the day. [/quote]

All daycares have academic programming for kids aged 3-5, just like preschools. All preschools have play time and nap time and protocols to deal with potty accidents, just like daycare. For all intents and purposes they are the same thing for kids aged 3-5. Daycares simply serve a broader range of ages, like babies and elementary aged kids needing after school supervision. Preschools generally don't take kids younger than 3 and often times they offer kindergarten. In my experience, people whose kids go to a preschool program that also offers kindergarten get very butt hurt about people referring to it as daycare.[/quote]

Yes, daycares most of the time the providers already are preschool teachers[/quote]

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