OK: here's a question. Does anyone have experience with parocial Jewish daycares? We have a full range from slightly to ultra-observant large and small, mixed age and grouped available.
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In our area there was a highly regarded conservative temple with a preschool. Several of my friends kids went there. It was excellent for teaching the rituals, they did Shabbat and the holdiays and began the inroduction of the hebrew alphabet. Its obviously less diverse than other pre-k's. And It was less "academic" than ours, not by a lot, but a bit. It was very play based, but not even developmentally play based. The only real drawbacks which all the parents complained about were kosher lunches if you didn't keep kosher and if your kid wasnt big on dairy you were stuck. And the month of september/october could be a wash depending how the holdiays fell. Drove everyone nuts having to get sitters for all the erev days as well as the holdiays. But most were pleased to have gotten the head start on the introduction of the traditions, but after that, all the conversations were the same about any pre-k - hours, teachers, equipment, etc. Oh, except for level of observance, you want it to match because if they are more your kid is going to start asking questions you might not be prepared to answer!!!
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