Just wanted to revive this thread to say, Hanni is doing GREAT in preschool now! She loves her teachers, loves the other kids, and is happy at drop-off time. I'm so glad we stuck it out!
And as she perks up, the teachers are starting to clue in to how verbal she is. It helps that she is not an extreme outlier in this class, so the teachers don't have to completely shift their frame of reference. She's the youngest, and the oldest kid is a good match for her verbally. Also, most of the kids are smarter than the average bear (at least half of them have parents who are professors or computer geeks).
So though I do still see the teachers talking down to her a bit ("Hanni, I see that you have TWOOOOO ponytails today!"), I don't think it's egregious and I don't think it's going to particularly harm her. Meanwhile there's paint, oo-blek, trampolines, pandas in the sand-tray, and veggies grown right there in the classroom. Hooray!
