by guest author Shari McMinn
At a recent CHEC Intro to Homeschooling workshop where I presented the Nuts & Bolts portion of how to actually homeschool, I had several people ask me about preschool. As this is becoming a more prevalent question, I thought it should be addressed from a Christian, home education viewpoint.
Historically, only families of means sent their kids to preschool. The upper class had nannies or tutors, and the upper middle class had preschool. Preschool prepared children to enter more rigorous (private) schools, which expected children to know the traditional things a child learned in Kindergarten, before they entered their rigorous Kindergarten.
The more selfish reason included home-makers having more leisure time for tennis, golf, or bridge each day at the local country club while their young children were occupied at preschool.
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