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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
calling daycare "school"
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Re: calling daycare "school"
This is by far the stupidest effing argument we've had on this board in weeks.
REALLY ladies?!!
The Mouse ~ 06.12.08 | The Froggy ~ 02.23.11
I've never understood why this bothers people so much. We call daycare "school" but more for DD's benefit than DS'. She is excited by the fact that she is in a certain class now, will be moved up to another next year, and then goes on to kindergarten.
And all of the instructors at their "school" are early childhood educators (even in the toddler room) and they do have a set curriculum they follow (they follow a Piaget curriculum). They do cognitive activities, art, music, language development, stories, etc. It is much more school like than the days I am home with them. I will say that this place is MUCH more school like than their old daycare though.
this is how our place is run. Its actually called a learning center. They have children there from 2mos to 9yrs because they also run an afterschool program. Every week I get a sheet that tells me what they are going to be covering. This week it was the colors of the rainbow and each day was geared towards a specific color. The teachers are all certified early educators and the ones that are not are just called teaching aids.
No, DD learns physics from Curious George. The other day she was telling us about levers and fulcrums.
Guilty? No. If I were a SAHM now, I would be doing her a great disservice by taking her out of school. She has learned at an amazing rate and I'm very proud of what she learns there. It always amazes me that so many SAHMs think that working moms must feel some sort of guilt all.the.time. We don't. Some might. But not me.
School is a place where curriculum is standardized (for the most part), lessons are taught by certified teachers and the majority of the day is academic.
And by that note, most schools in my area do follow these guidelines.
Weird, I'm a working mom, too.
And for the MILLIONTH time, I was talking about my friends. How you exprapolated to yourself, I don't know.
It's a pet peeve for me purely because I work in schools, so calling day care "school" makes me giggle. No need for people to get so pissed about someone's pet peeve.
But DD can count to ten in Spanish!
And I can vouch and say that avz2azb's kid is BRILLIANT. She was counting to 10 at like 10 months or something. LOL.
My daycare actually is a school, and they have a curriculum for even the toddlers... so yeah, in my mind she's going to school. That's what we call it too.
Sorry it's one of your pet peeves... doesn't look like this practice is going to change anytime soon!
And all of you who refer to daycare as school....I pity your children. Prepare yourselves for years of therapy....might as well start saving your $ now.
Ding! Winnah!
I'm sure some people do like the sound of sending their kids to a school vs daycare. Do I think most who call it that (which I was surprised at how many here do) feel guilty? No.
Really? Was that necessary?
Yeah, I couldn't tell if she was serious. And if so, why would referring to it as school be damaging to our kids?
exactly. also the "well, she learns there so it's school" argument. my DS learns something from me everyday...yet, I am not a teacher...go figure!
not that I care. but school to me starts with kindergarten, when you are required to go. how can it be school before then if it's optional?
sarcasm. In the grand scheme of things, what difference does it make whether it's called school or daycare.
yes, necessary.
Couldn't read the sarcasm through the screen. I don't think what you call it is that big of a deal. I think it's bizarre that so many people are so anti call it school.
College and graduate school are optional too.
Look, you can think I'm crazy for calling it school, but the way DD learns at her school is much different than the way she learns at home. Sure they learn things at home from me, but at school/daycare/whatever she is sitting at a desk, learning in a structured environment from a NAEYC accredited early learning center with teachers that have degrees in early childhood education.
No, it's all good. And I like you more everyday mulva.
So in your view pre-school is not school??
This isn't something that bothers me, but I would just like to throw out there that DD learns things from me everyday at home, and I *am* a certified teacher, but she isn't at school... she's in my care, during the day, at home. So just because your kids are learning things from a care provider doesn't make it "school".... they're toddlers, they're at daycare. Fine if you want to call it school b/c it's fun to say or helps them make some association with an older sibling or tv show or whatever. But those of you arguing that it's school b/c it's "structured" and they "learn things" - haha.
I just read this post after I typed mine. Jinx. We're totally on the same page (except I am a teacher! just not DD's...) ;-)
Your DD is almost 4, no? So she *is* at pre-school/nursery school...right? That isn't what this argument is about in the first place. We'd be talking about your younger DS. No 12-24 month olds are sitting at desks at their "schools".
I think this argument is bizarre.
Joseph doesn't go to school or daycare, so I'm completely outside this. I don't care what anyone calls it. Not at all. Daycare might not be school, but often school is pretty much daycare, so I don't get what the big deal is.
It's not even a semantic argument. Using school is about putting words into a child-accessible format. My SF isn't Joseph's grandfather. He's not my dad, and we don't have a father-daughter relationship. But he has an incredibly close relationship with my son, so calling him Grandpa just like my sister's kids do works.
This is just...weird. Aren't there babies sitting the wrong way in a carseat or eating non-organic hot dog circles that we can argue about?
LOL. The curriculum at my daughter's daycare is standardized, and starting at age 2 the teachers are certified. I'd be lying if I said the majority of the day is academic, but developmental activities at this age are critical to early learning. I don't feel the least bit guilty about taking my child to daycare, because she has thrived and has developed by leaps and bounds since I went back to work. I felt guilty when I was home with her doing housework and going online while she stared at me from her bouncy chair.
I "get" what people are saying about daycare and school being different from each other, but since the routine is basically the same in terms of going there, staying all day and getting picked up, I think it is getting her used to the concept. No scientific basis, just my thoughts on it.
I call it school when i speak to kyla.. "ready to go to school?" etc..
when i speak with DH.. i usually say.. "i'm picking her up from daycare"..
This sentence makes way too much sense.
The daycare DD goes to is on the campus of one of the schools I work in......So yea, it is school.
This logic = fail.
I like the "child accessible" format. That makes sense to me.