Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
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Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
| Sun, 03-19-2006 - 3:09pm |
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051101/news_1n1earlyed.html
Very interesting. Particularly the difference in the middle to upper income kids vs low income.
"I personally feel children need the nurture of their parents and the home," she said. "Those early years, that's when they are bonding to their family. That nurturing, only the family can give that."
I tend to agree.
MM, WOHM to B&E, 7.24.03

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It was our worst experience
PumpkinAngel
Maybe that was an excellent school compared to other schools in your state, but it's sure not "excellent" in my book.
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"But for some reason he still ended up sitting through Hat, Cat, Sat."
I'm not even faintly an educator, but what kinds of accomodations could have been made, if that still occurred?
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Yes, a good teacher should be able to.
For some reason, for a period of several years I'm guessing, ability grouping for reading was phased out in our district. It seems that someone with an agenda got the district to agree that grouping children by ability was elitist and not serving the lowest performing reading students well. It also hurt too many feelings. (Parents or students, I don't know!) I sure thought it was odd for first grade not to have reading groups. I've had another child go through first grade since then and she had a different experience. Not sure if it has to do with things changing over the course of two years or just a different teacher. They don't seem nearly as skittish about grouping by ability anymore.
Oh, I agree. I was using "excellent" in a somewhat facetious way, mostly for the benefit of people like Tinderbox who is so convinced that she has cornered the market on an excellent education for her children based on the statistics compiled from her local school district and for Felicia who tends to appreciate the more standard and traditional ways of measuring success.
What is going on here is that I can get really tired of people telling me or insinuating that I didn't do my research when choosing a school for my children. I did do it. One of my main points here on this board in regards to education is that what is excellent for a majority, isn't necessarily excellent for all.
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