“When we went to preschool, it used to be all about playing and sitting in a circle and singing songs,” one mom, an elementary school teacher, told me. “Parents still think they’re sending their kids to kindergarten so they can learn how to share and take turns, but that’s just not how it is anymore.” “These hands-on activities are great fun and all that, but I just don’t see how that’s going to get them ready for kindergarten,” another mother said, voicing her concern about the direction of the preschool. And then, ominously, “I guess we’ll find out at kindergarten screening.”
