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Don't preschool and kindergarten teach vital social skills that can affect how you interact with others for the rest of your life?
by starpilot 5y ago
Don't preschool and kindergarten teach vital social skills that can affect how you interact with others for the rest of your life?
- 1123581321 5y agoOnly as an intervention—outcomes are similar with or without for healthy families (using income as proxy.)
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- jonstewart 5y agoYes, this is referred to as Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and is a major focus of teaching in PreK and kindergarten.
- nevinera 5y agoIn the absence of basic parenting, yes - that's an important function the setting serves. But it's not 'preparation for 1st grade', it's minimal damage-mitigation.
- whymauri 5y agoIn the absence of basic parenting? The child is spending like eight hours away from their parents. Of course it's going to have an impact, parenting present or not.
- IncRnd 5y agoI'm pretty sure the commentator was talking about the other case, social skills can be learned outside of pre-school and kindergarten - when basic parenting skills are applied.
- nevinera 5y agoPretty much, yeah. If those kids that aren't going to kindergarten have exchanged that time for neglect - sitting in front of a television for an eight hour stretch, for example - then they will certainly be worse off for it. But the article didn't demonstrate or investigate that, it went straight from "less enrollment" to "less prepared", as if kindergarten is the only realistic place to learn such important skills as "basic respect" and "don't hit people".