Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 5/11/2007 10:15:00 PM Author: Chris (vstchris@yahoo.com) Subject: interaction Maybe you are not a mother. If you were you would know that preschool is not the only way that children get interaction with other children. There are tons of ways and many parent find them from gymnastic classes to coop preschools to play schools. And of course many more options. Neither is communication limited to children who attend preschool. As a matter of fact, poorly run preschools, with uneducated or trained teachers do not always provide the best environments for language to flourish or the best situations for children to learn how to share or engage in the art of compromise. I wish it were so but it is not. I know some preschool teachers that can barely pronounce many words in our language correctly (and I'm not talking about teachers with other languages as their primary language). Many states do not even require kindergarten. If universal preschool was provided for free, then I would say OK because that means all children would have equal access, like kindergarten in most states. But if it were to be required, then it takes a parent's right to decide away and that's bad because that parent may not live where you live, obviously a place where you feel the preschools are great places for any child. I must admit that it must be nice to have so much confidence. And that's a good thing. Name: Email: Subject

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