My in-laws all privately educate their children, have all been privately educated themselves, and are very academically focused. My son (my husbands step son) is in secondary education at a state school, and is not academic at all. I went to state schools, and did all of my further education as a mature student.
My in laws, plus my husband, are very keen for my daughter with my husband (1 year old), to be privately educated. I am personally quite uncomfortable with the whole idea of private education, but I can also see some positives, such as small class numbers, better grades etc. I have agreed to consider sending her, but I am extremely uncomfortable with the idea of pre-school, whereby she will only be 3 years old and being taught in a formal setting.
Therefore, aibu to keep her in her partime private day nursery 3 days per week, where she will be doing informal learning in a relaxed environment, until she is reception age? My husband and in-laws all thing this is ridiculous, and that I will be hindering her future learning .
I feel really uncomfortable with the idea of such young children being taught formally, and think that as she will be in education for such a long time that I want her to enjoy her early years in a relaxed and fun setting.
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minidisco · 26/11/2014 13:03
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