that's not to say i disagree with the suggestion, just adding more context.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:36 AM, alyssa wright <[email protected]> wrote: > I do think there's some distinction in the US between kindergarden and day > care (and it's too early to find the wikipedia articles to back this up, my > apologies...) so more generally speaking -- the distinction is that > kindergarden has government certified teachers and probably under stricter > regulation. In some states, including NY I believe - its actually > mandatory, where forms of day care are not. > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Janko Mihelić <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think we should agree on an umbrella term for all institutions that >> care for and teach children before they go to "real" school. Is >> amenity=day_care already the term I'm talking about? And then on the wiki >> just write "If you're not sure, put amenity=day_care". That way we have >> covered all the different types of those institutions that we have never >> heard about. >> >> I think we need this because there are probably lots of gray areas of >> what caring is, and what teaching is. Some would say it's the same thing. >> Teaching children how to get along with each other isn't less important >> than teaching them 1+1. Also, you can teach children 1+1 through play and >> fun. If there is some clear distinction, I'm not aware of it. >> >> Janko >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> >
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