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Full day Pre-K
Hello all, I wanted to get everyone's thoughts on full day Pre-K. In OK they started making kindergarten full day about 2 years ago. I've noticed now that they are starting to make Pre-K full day(optional). My kids aren't old enough yet for either, I have a two year old and a 9 month old. But, I was curious to see how many are for and against full day Pre-K, and what benefits or negative aspects you think there are for each. Personally, I am against full day Pre-K and against Pre-K altogether. But, I am a stay at home mom with a very good support group of other moms. So, we have playdates one to two times a week.
Oh, I'm so glad you added that last part, Angelinthemorning! That's so what kindergarten and PreK is all about!!! Not only free daycare for the parents, but the school makes money, don't forget, for every child they get in there!!!
Forgot to add...
My father-in-law was on a school board in OK 20 years ago when they first started discussing full day K. You know why it was suggessted??? So it would save parents money on daycare fees. Absolutely nothing was brought up about it being better for the child at that time. Just that it would "help" parents out financially.
My father-in-law was on a school board in OK 20 years ago when they first started discussing full day K. You know why it was suggessted??? So it would save parents money on daycare fees. Absolutely nothing was brought up about it being better for the child at that time. Just that it would "help" parents out financially.
I've decided Pre-K is really just for parents who aren't at home. Quite frankly there's nothing taught in Pre-K that I can't teach them at home. It seems everyone really pushes "social" time. Which is funny to me b/c isn't that what playing with the neighborhood kids is. I do live in a small community so, it is more tight knit.(Drive down our street in the afternoons and you see all the kids and parents out congregating and playing). While other countries may be ahead you'll also notice more specialized schools. Here (US) everybody gets shipped to public school. It's a broad range of learning. You have to pull your kid out and like twehner's daughter, they have to be taken to another school if they're advanced in one area. A lot of times if I child is advanced in one area and you want to encourage that, here in OK you have to pay a nice tution or hope your kid gets a scholarship to put them in a school that caters to their learning.
I am a first grader teacher at a Catholic School. We have a full day Pre-K and believe me those are some of the smartest children I have ever taught. I began my career at a Public School were Pre-K was not offered and you can tell an enormous difference from those that went to Pre-K and those that did not. I know at our school the little ones have some down time, were they are allowed to work on social skills, play and rest. These children come fully prepared for K and on. I am a big fan of Pre-K and I will send my children to full day Pre-K without even thinking twice about it.
It is not like they are expected to sit there all day and do drill sheet after drill sheet. These children are provided with a full balance of activities and enrichment that totally instill learning and a love for school!!!!
It is not like they are expected to sit there all day and do drill sheet after drill sheet. These children are provided with a full balance of activities and enrichment that totally instill learning and a love for school!!!!
kids are indeed high tech mine can text real fast areexcellent on keyboard and get me outta jams on the computer...but they grew up that way remember our first video games that stupid tennis one pong...it didnt get good till the first Mario came around...LOL....and you may be right about the schools Im not sure our district keeps fixing whats not broken we are going to trimesters instead of half years classes and in MI starting with next years graduating class the students must complete and pass one year of forgein language,,,,theyve already taken away library...gym is only 1/2 year ...I dont know what it will be for trimesters and art or band are electives.....I dont have the answer as to whats better in school but I firmly believe the cellphones, computers , xboxes etc are bad for our kids they should be riding bikes playing basketball etc....wonder why we have so many obese children...oh well sorry for the tangent
Schools want us to think that kids are being taught more these days...that's part of the propaganda to sweep them away younger and younger. My 8th grade daughter is 2 years ahead of her class mates in math, yet she's in the same math I took in 8th grade (geometry). So, who's foolin' who? (I graduated from HS in 1982.) Next year, at great cost to the school district, they will bus her to the high school for math and then bus her back to her JH school. She did this in her final year of elementary school year, too. (This is the child who DIDN'T DO kindergarten!!!)
Parents can purchase age-appropriate computer games that will teach very young children enough computer skills to be on par with their peers. They will catch up, it not. It's mostly hype. We didn't have a computer for the longest time, and my son was teaching his friends how to do things on THEIR computers - kids just KNOW.
Parents can purchase age-appropriate computer games that will teach very young children enough computer skills to be on par with their peers. They will catch up, it not. It's mostly hype. We didn't have a computer for the longest time, and my son was teaching his friends how to do things on THEIR computers - kids just KNOW.
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