Differences between Preschool for All and Tuition-Based Preschool Curriculums
By: Ashley Lopez
There is a great disparity in curriculums between the tuition-based preschools and free public preschools. This shows that there is inequity between the courses in Chicago Public Schools. Children who do not attend a Tuition-Based course are not taught equally from an early age. While free preschool for all is a basic understanding course, the tuition based course is more rigorous learning, therefore, making it superior. It has been studied that the accomplishment and success of children in their future is established by a very young age. Whether tuition-based or free preschool, children should have the right to have the same opportunity. The key to success relies on early childhood education such as a high quality preschool which is only given to the children who attend a tuition-based preschool, results of that inequity are found in the differences in both curriculums.
Chicago Public Schools offers two programs, the tuition-based course and the Pre-K for all. The tuition-based course is a program where a fee is enabled, while preschool for all is a free public program. By comparing the curriculums from the two different courses you stumble across the inequity between the free public courses. The tuition-based program offers advanced courses described as superior “TBP uses the Creative Curriculum Literacy Approach to promote literacy, including reading aloud, storytelling, talking, singing, and playing with language” (CPS). The tuition-based course is rigorous and allows students to think outside of the box. This discipline allows students to think critically and therefore become advanced. While the public course only offers a basic understanding course, “Students will begin to develop basic reading, writing, and math skills” (CPS). The free public course only offers a basic understanding limiting the amount of education given. In the other hand, tuition-based course is a full day that is offered at different times thus adjusting to the parents schedule. Unlike the tuition-based course, Preschool for All is stated in the Chicago Public School Website to be only half a day. The tuition-based course is 10 hours of rigorous and challenging learning while Preschool for All is only a short two hours and forty minutes How can we fit a full day of learning schedule into "half a day?" There is obviously a gap between curriculums.
Having a difference in curriculums is not only limiting the education to free preschool children compared to tuition-based children, it is also determining their future success. Thus proves that the achievement gap between students is already defined by their early childhood education. Children whom parents cannot afford a tuition-based school feel the negative effects of it in early years, as well as in the later future. It is not fair that children are not granted the equal opportunity to achieve success. We are limiting their learning and taking the key to success. The Chicago Public Schools logo states "No child is left behind", if so why are children receiving less education then others?
Works Cited :
By: Ashley Lopez
There is a great disparity in curriculums between the tuition-based preschools and free public preschools. This shows that there is inequity between the courses in Chicago Public Schools. Children who do not attend a Tuition-Based course are not taught equally from an early age. While free preschool for all is a basic understanding course, the tuition based course is more rigorous learning, therefore, making it superior. It has been studied that the accomplishment and success of children in their future is established by a very young age. Whether tuition-based or free preschool, children should have the right to have the same opportunity. The key to success relies on early childhood education such as a high quality preschool which is only given to the children who attend a tuition-based preschool, results of that inequity are found in the differences in both curriculums.
Chicago Public Schools offers two programs, the tuition-based course and the Pre-K for all. The tuition-based course is a program where a fee is enabled, while preschool for all is a free public program. By comparing the curriculums from the two different courses you stumble across the inequity between the free public courses. The tuition-based program offers advanced courses described as superior “TBP uses the Creative Curriculum Literacy Approach to promote literacy, including reading aloud, storytelling, talking, singing, and playing with language” (CPS). The tuition-based course is rigorous and allows students to think outside of the box. This discipline allows students to think critically and therefore become advanced. While the public course only offers a basic understanding course, “Students will begin to develop basic reading, writing, and math skills” (CPS). The free public course only offers a basic understanding limiting the amount of education given. In the other hand, tuition-based course is a full day that is offered at different times thus adjusting to the parents schedule. Unlike the tuition-based course, Preschool for All is stated in the Chicago Public School Website to be only half a day. The tuition-based course is 10 hours of rigorous and challenging learning while Preschool for All is only a short two hours and forty minutes How can we fit a full day of learning schedule into "half a day?" There is obviously a gap between curriculums.
Having a difference in curriculums is not only limiting the education to free preschool children compared to tuition-based children, it is also determining their future success. Thus proves that the achievement gap between students is already defined by their early childhood education. Children whom parents cannot afford a tuition-based school feel the negative effects of it in early years, as well as in the later future. It is not fair that children are not granted the equal opportunity to achieve success. We are limiting their learning and taking the key to success. The Chicago Public Schools logo states "No child is left behind", if so why are children receiving less education then others?
Works Cited :
- Anyon, Jean. "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work." Journal of Education162.1 (Fall 1980): n. pag. Web. 1 Mar. 2014.
- "Preschool for All ." Chicago Public Schools :Preschool for All. Chicago Public Schools, n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2014. <http://www.cps.edu/Schools/EarlyChildhood/Pages/Preschoolforall__.aspx>.
- "Tuition-based Preschool ." Chicago Public Schools :Tuition-based Preschool. Chicago Publlic Schools, n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2014. <http://www.cps.edu/SCHOOLS/EARLYCHILDHOOD/Pages/Tuition-basedpreschool.aspx>.