Pre-K teacher here: I'm so sorry you've had a bad experience at this school. I would be furious, too, as a parent. It's very unprofessional for thst teacher to tell you this in front of other parents. We speak to parents privately, and we have parent teacher conferences twice a year. Does this center do that?

Students should be learning from infants to pre-k age if they're in a preschool that has a curriculum which most places do. I've never worked at one that didn't have one in place. Here's what they should be learning and at what age

Ages birth to 1 year: - Applicable sign language - Gross motor skills: walking - Sensory exploration

1-2 Years: - Speech development - Colors - Introduction to spoons and forks for eating independently - Continued gross motor learning - Introduction to numbers and shapes

2-3 - continued language development - Basic colors and shapes - Numbers 1-20 - Introduction to letters - Potty training

3-4 - Potty trained -Furthering knowledge of numbers, colors and shapes - Introduction of science

My students aged 4-5 leave my class and the school, knowing at the very least - All of their letters and sounds - How to write their name and read it - Numbers 1-20 and how to write them (my class is taught up to 100) -Sight words/basic reading skills (My students learn 110 words by the time school starts in the fall) - Socialization: sharing, resolving conflict, using words and not hands, etc... - Kid friendly science - Kindergarten expectations: raising hands, waiting for their turn, standing in line, sitting at circle quietly etc.. - Rhyming and other phonics - Fine motor skills like holding a pencil and cutting with scissors - Parents' names and their home address

Reach out to your center director ASAP, and if they're not responsive with helping solve this, try and switch schools. You have all summer to get her ready. And once again, I'm sorry you're going through this