my kids considered it a fun place to go for a few mornings per week. it is hardly fair to characterize sending a child to preschool from 9-noon, three mornings a week, instutionalization.
my kids considered it a fun place to go for a few mornings per week. it is hardly fair to characterize sending a child to preschool from 9-noon, three mornings a week, instutionalization.
But yours is not the situation with a lot of the kids in preschool. A lot of these little tykes are getting shuffled/ shuttled from daycare to pre-school and back to daycare and are in an institutionalized setting for more than 8 hours per day/ 5 days per week.
However, the article says about its first anecdotal subject:
Kevin, who is now 5 years old, became frustrated quite easily, threw temper tantrums and became unruly at his day-care center.
Although more detail is not given, "day-care center" implies 10-12 hours a day, five days a week.
It's true that many children are not being disciplined by their parents, and one reason is that they're rarely WITH their parents!
Our local public pre-school program (in Texas)is 8:00AM to 3:00 PM five days a week, just as every other grade in school. That's because they can't afford to run a separate bus schedule for pre-school and because the mothers don't want the kids home because they work. They would be happy to see a longer class day, say till 5:30, but the school can't afford that either. Yes, this is child abuse and our country pays for its neglect of children and their lack of homelife in many, many ways.