The preschool that her older son goes to is a parent cooperative that has a play-based approach to learning, with plenty of field trips, sensory bins, and hands-on experiments mixed in with traditional academics. At least it tries to. Lately, the teachers had come under pressure from the public school to adapt to the ever-increasing requirements of kindergarten. Parents, too, feared that socializing, playing, singing, and learning how to be a good friend didn’t do enough to prepare their prodigies for what was to come. Some even felt like they had no choice but to move their children to other
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