Well, I always prefer more opportunities to fewer. It's practically my mantra! <grin>
I think it would be great to let the kids have access to academic stuff *if that's what a child chose to do that particular day*. But that's a big if! At that age, play is learning. (Well, at all ages, really, but especially pre-K...) Play should always be encouraged. But since sometimes multiplication IS play for HG+ kids, I think it is great to have those possibilities present, too.
We had our DS6 in two preschools: one didn't offer him any opportunity for academics at all--not even reading was encouraged--and one was too lockstep about completing task A before going on to task B. I may sound like Goldilocks, but neither method was quite right for DS6. Ideally, a wide variety of academic options would be open to any of the kids at any time, as well as all the play options.
More, more, MORE!!!
