Losing kids to pre-school ugh !! JUst venting :)

[Inspired by Reggio]

Sunnydays ~ just a FYI but you should be hard done by to find a regulated daycare in Ontario with RECE running it that are still doing 'academic/theme based' focused programs anyway as for the many years there has been a very strong push towards 'learning through play ~ emergent child led educator supported programming' from every professional development resource out there for the past decade almost and now that the Ontario government has officially rolled out the 'Early Learning for Every Child Today' or the Ontario Early Learning Framework as it is now called the document and the supporting principles for 'quality childcare' has been issued to every centre across Ontario who receives government funding and all of them are suppose to be implementing that new 'play based program' based on that document and to get us BACK into best practice that we had long ago before everyone got so obsessed with 'academics' being the be all and end all to early years ... and sadly yes that was mostly PARENT driven and ECE feeling pressured to produce 'academic results' for parents who were demanding it ~ now there is a push for us to 'reeducate' parents that this is NOT best nor developmentally appropriate practice to have wee ones doing worksheets and flash cards and being given boxed curriculum themes and being asked 'testing' style questions at group times like 'what does a Polar bear eat, what color is he, what does he do in the winter' and so forth and reality is as an ECE most of us know it never has been best practice we just got 'shoved' into having to offer that from both the parents and 'licensing agencies' because it was the 'demand' from parents and those who 'fund' daycare to see 'academic measurable results' that just snowballed totally out of control