Anonymous wrote:Found Ohio #41 in education among states (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education). 5 year-olds should still be in daycare. School should start at age 7.
2 extra years of schooling and your children have nothing to show for it compared to their peers around the world. I'm not laughing.

No, that list ranks Ohio at #36 for k-12

Who has so few real problems on this earth that what people call their child care is something you spend mental energy on? Are you actually a fully functional adult? Did your parents significantly overindulge you when you were a child? Did you never hear the word 'no' or something? I find myself morbidly curious about you and want to know where your parents went wrong.

Anonymous wrote:Found Ohio #41 in education among states (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education). 5 year-olds should still be in daycare. School should start at age 7.
2 extra years of schooling and your children have nothing to show for it compared to their peers around the world. I'm not laughing.

+1 this. Even putting aside the calling it school vs. daycare argument, I cringe every time I hear a parent talk (sometimes brag) about their 3/4 year old’s “academic” preschool. It’s so developmentally inappropriate.

Found Ohio #41 in education among states (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education). 5 year-olds should still be in daycare. School should start at age 7.
2 extra years of schooling and your children have nothing to show for it compared to their peers around the world. I'm not laughing.

Anonymous wrote:My sister is here (lives in my hometown in Ohio) and she told me she noticed 3 of my friends talking about their infants "school." She was laughing and thought it sounded rediclous to call daycare school. She just thought it was a bit pretentious and over the top. I've never thought about it before but I guess the word daycare is fading out. Just a funny observation I thought I would share. It's now an inside joke. "O does baby Larla have a spelling test today." "She's probably tired from her chem final."

Sounds like maybe they should start "school" earlier in Ohio.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least you don't have to live in Ohio.

I mean - have you been to Ohio? Cincinnati, Columbus or Cleveland? Don’t knock it down if you don’t know it.

Oh dear. Are these places supposed to impress us?

I am not from Ohio. I am from San Diego. However, I have lived in DC, and visited Columbus and Cincinatti. They are good cities.

+1
The ignorance here is frightening.

It's athing people here do. Tough my friends were ridiculous for calling daycare "school," until I moved here. Seems to be a dmv thing.

I have been a working mom, SAHM and part time working mom. My kids attended an early learning center that had extended hours. Most parents did work granted it felt like at least one parent worked part time, from home or was in school.

I called it school. When my older child started there, he went 2 hours per week for 3 hours per day. Then he went 5 days per week 3 hours per day. Eventually I had a 2yo and 4yo going there 9-4 daily. I always called it school. They did everything a so called normal preschool would do from 9-12. They would get lunch, nap and play outside after nap. It was a lovely schedule.

I eventually stopped working and I still kept my 4yo there but I picked him up at lunchtime.

We were driving around last week when a radio ad come on for a preschool talking about their "curriculum" and my teen busted up laughing. "Curriculum? Academically-challenging environment? No, it's a bunch of little kids wiping food on themselves and pooping their pants!" Ha.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever. If your 2 year old or 3 year old or 4 year old can go to part time preschool, mine is going to preschool too, she's just there all day.

Prior to 2 years old, there's still a curriculum that is followed but less structure.

A lot of thought went into the curriculum at my child’s school (Huckleberry Kidz Kare). Tummy time, diaper change, gum on a board book, bottle, nap. It’s a block schedule, so they mix it up with grabbing blocks and spit up time on alternating days.

Tummy time, diaper change, book, bottle and nap are not curriculum. They are what every baby does every day.

Pp, I think you missed the sarcasm.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever. If your 2 year old or 3 year old or 4 year old can go to part time preschool, mine is going to preschool too, she's just there all day.

Prior to 2 years old, there's still a curriculum that is followed but less structure.

A lot of thought went into the curriculum at my child’s school (Huckleberry Kidz Kare). Tummy time, diaper change, gum on a board book, bottle, nap. It’s a block schedule, so they mix it up with grabbing blocks and spit up time on alternating days.

Tummy time, diaper change, book, bottle and nap are not curriculum. They are what every baby does every day.

People can call it what they want, but babies and toddler don’t go to “school.” I’ve also heard SAHMs say they are “homeschooling” their 3 or 4 yo. I think that’s silly, too. I don’t send my kids to preschool until age 4, I SAH, and of course I do art, reading, letters, science experiments, outings, etc with my preschool age kid(s). But I’d never call that “homeschooling”— it’s just called parenting.
I will say even when my oldest was in preschool, we always called it “preschool,” not just school, because “School,” to me, implies K & up.

I call it school because DD1, who is 3.5, is at a preschool. Lead teachers have 4-year college degrees, they follow MCPS school calendar/days off, assessments are conducted in the fall and spring with optional parent/teacher conference, full and half day programs are offered and I’m required to enroll her every school year. I’m not sure what about that doesn’t sound like school. DD2 is in the infant room, and they only accept infants of existing families who already have children enrolled. I absolutely call it school for her too for the purposes of consistency and understanding for DD1. YMMV.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I call it school, because it's where my 2yo has learned to count, his shapes, Spanish, etc. He has teachers there. How is this not school?

I tend to agree with you. When DD was an infant it was definitely 'daycare,' but now that she's two the things she learns amazes me daily: counting, colors, shapes, ABC's. And the ART - so much art. And the choreographed dances. And how to get along with others and share toys.

Her caregivers are certainly teaching her these things, so how are they not teachers?

Because unless it is an accredited preschool with certified teachers with college degrees - they aren’t teachers.

Exactly. I taught my own kids shapes, colors, counting, the alphabet etc. I'm not a teacher.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least you don't have to live in Ohio.

I mean - have you been to Ohio? Cincinnati, Columbus or Cleveland? Don’t knock it down if you don’t know it.

Oh dear. Are these places supposed to impress us?

I am not from Ohio. I am from San Diego. However, I have lived in DC, and visited Columbus and Cincinatti. They are good cities.