Why a Co-op?
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Saturday, 14 February 2009 01:42
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JAMES L. HYMEZ, JR. ED. D. PAST PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN

That's a good question. A cooperative nursery school will demand a great deal more time from you. It will demand more effort and more commitment than would a school to which you simply pay tuition. So the question is worth asking: why go to all the extra trouble?

The answer, I think, does not lie primarily in what a cooperative nursery experience will do for your child. A good co-op and a good plain-nursery-school will have very similar goals. They will both work toward rounded social and emotional and physical and intellectual development. And they will have very similar programs: the same art, music, science, and math experiences, good literature, language, social studies, physical activities, play.


I believe that co-op children do get some special breaks - we'll talk about them later. But I am sure that in a co-op you - the adults, parents, mothers and fathers - gain the most. A cooperative nursery school has to be an excellent school for young children but a co-op offers a bonus. It offers some very significant advantages to the grownups


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