PBL Private School

• Rant-ish post *

For context: my nephew’s parents are a doctor and nurse, coming from a long line of doctors/“professionals”, and he’s their first child. They read to him at night, but don’t teach him anything else.

My nephew is starting kindergarten this year & his parents decided to put him in a private project-based learning school. He has no preschool or daycare experience & before this he went to “forest school” which was a half-day program where the kids walked through the woods & learned about nature.

I’m worried about his education & growth and wanting to know the benefits of this private school. It just opened in 2021 & has 12 students per class. As far as I know, they don’t have a gym class (just a playground), no music class and no library. Pickup/drop off time is whenever you want. Unsure how they’re teaching curriculum and basic standards through only projects for 5 year olds. I asked a first grader how she liked the school & she said she “just wants to learn, someone please teach me math”. So it sounds like they’re not doing the typical kindergarten aspects: counting, recognizing letters/numbers, shapes, etc. PBL sounds like it would be helpful to some students but mainly at the higher education level, not necessarily k-5.

I’m wondering how this will help/hurt him in the long run if he won’t know how to spell his name but at least he’ll know how to build a birdhouse.

Also, they’re now asking parents to come in on the weekends and clean since they’re not hiring a cleaning staff this year.

Submitted August 17, 2024 at 04:58AM by prplprnx https://ift.tt/Lyu7ASr