Can someone spell major league lawsuit waiting to happen.
I'm personally not big on pre-schools. If you have to work and send your child out somewhere, I think that day-care centers where children can just play and be children is fine. But learning how to see the "uglier side of life?" Children should absolutely learn to say "please" and "thank you."
"Can someone spell major league lawsuit waiting to happen."
Yes, from pinworms alone.
"You should see the kids jumping in mud puddles on a rainy day."
Austin.
'Nuff said.
I think lawsuits are a given in this situation. But just wait until this crowd gets to first grade and tries to create wall-to-wall chaos. Even in Austin, somebody is bound to notice.
Sounds like "jungle Education" to me. Why bother, they will learn that on their own if left unattended.
Hmmm.....they should call it a historical reconstruction of childhood as it was in previous centuries.
This place may be a bit extreme, but it does make a good point. It has become too much the commonplace idea that children will do better if stuffed with book-learning early on. There is very little evidence that this works. When the child's brain function reaches an age for reading, he or she will learn to read easily, and will actually take pleasure in it. Forced too early, the child will just struggle with what seems to be incomprehensible.
Let children be taught as their abilities develop.
The really big failure in education is not that we fail to teach our children when they are very young. The problem is that we stop teaching them when they are just beginning to get good abilities.
Part of this is a result of putting students of widely varying ability all together in the same class, and expecting them to follow the same course program. It is egalitarianism run amuck, and is contrary to the reality of human nature.
Pupils should advance at some rate commensurate with their own ability. The slower ones should be given more time, and never pushed forward until they have achieved success. The best learners should be advanced at their maximum rate, so that they never become bored. This is the way to do things, and would be a happier, more efficient system. Home-schooling generally works like this.
A Baptist started an Arabic preschool?
Sounds like you'd have to hose your kid off before you can put in the car to go home.
If I had seen what this man had seen, my statement would have been: "I was a little freaked out and PROMPTLY LEFT at first because it was different,"
***"I get a really good feeling being here," Chiro-Gianis said. ***
Feelings... nothing more than feelings...
I can't find much fault with this place. I'm sick of seeing people push their babies to read and write at the earliest possible age (so they can show off that they have a little genius). I think the only formal education a child this young should have is the kind they get all snuggled up in a lap listening to mommy or daddy read them a book.
Thanks but no thanks. Homeschooling, year 7. Hopefully my kids will never see the inside of a child detention center.
Sounds more like a day-care than a school.
But I bet they know everything about Kwanzaa.
My son is on the wait-list for this school. This school has been recommended by his current daycare’s director as well as the Early Childhood Intervention worker assigned to us b/c of my son’s hyperactivity and tendency toward aggressive when there’s crowding and expectations for him to sit still or wait in line. He’s only 2 1/2!
He has been assessed as being advanced in all areas (cognitive, verbal, emotional, physical) for his age, but he needs more space and freedom than a crowded daycare room with no where to climb and explore without being scolded constantly.
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