Three full days per week = $1,090 Clearly, according to this thread, we're doing it wrong.
Maybe not. For ours, either H or I have to come in to be the helping parent once a month. There's a different fee structure for the parents who don't do that. Also, H is an employee of the university that runs the pre-school, so we get a even more discounted rate.
Ours was insanely cheap in comparison to these. Ours was at our local Y, three days a week for 2 1/2 hours each morning, $100 ish a month. It was even cheaper if you were members of the Y (we were not). Parents had a rotation of providing snacks and helping in the classroom for the day.
Ours was insanely cheap in comparison to these. Ours was at our local Y, three days a week for 2 1/2 hours each morning, $100 ish a month. It was even cheaper if you were members of the Y (we were not). Parents had a rotation of providing snacks and helping in the classroom for the day.
This is the cheapest I have found, through our Y as well. It's probably what I'll end up going with.
We have another year and have already looked into it. The daycare he is at, which is fabulous, charges $190 a week for pre-k. There is also GA pre-k, which is either free or maybe a nominal fee like $25 a week. I've heard that they don't do much learning and it's mostly play time. Considering he started learning the alphabet, letter recognition, and counting at 2 I don't know if the free pre k makes sense, but we'll have to look more into it.
DD goes to the local high school where the high school students who want to be teachers teach the classes in lab school. Since I'm a teacher in the county I get a discount. We paid $300 for the year for 3 days a week for 3 hours each day.
Right now he goes one day a week from 9-11:30 and it's $90 a month. Next year he is going to the Montessori program at the elementary school where I teach (6th grade; I will not be his teacher!) and he'll go 4 days a week, 8:30-11:30, and it will also be $90 a month. Yay public school.
Our public schools have a preschool program that is free, with a meal (breakfast if morning session, lunch if afternoon), and is M-Th. I always thought that preschool was part of the school system, and didn't realize most people pay for it. The things I learn on here...
The public school district I work for offers free preschool for ECEAP, Head Start and special needs. I work with the inclusive (special needs & community kids) preschool. So most of the kids attend for free, but the community kids (normally developing kids) have to pay to attend. It's M-TH with a morning session and an afternoon session that are both 2.5 hours long. We also serve breakfast to the AM and lunch to the PM.
W is in the 2-3 class at his school, which is a combo daycare and pre-school (it actually goes up to first grade). He's there a full day, since H and I are working, and it's $175 per week. He gets lunch and snacks, we provide diapers.
For those of y'all who only send your kids for 3 hours in the morning, I'm curious to know how this works out with you working. Are you SAHM? Work nights? I'm just confused about how this works with a full time schedule.
Ours was insanely cheap in comparison to these. Ours was at our local Y, three days a week for 2 1/2 hours each morning, $100 ish a month. It was even cheaper if you were members of the Y (we were not). Parents had a rotation of providing snacks and helping in the classroom for the day.
This is the cheapest I have found, through our Y as well. It's probably what I'll end up going with.
ETA: except it's 2 days a week.
Just curious, do they include any kind of religious lessons throughout the day?
For those of y'all who only send your kids for 3 hours in the morning, I'm curious to know how this works out with you working. Are you SAHM? Work nights? I'm just confused about how this works with a full time schedule.
I SAH. If he went to daycare, preschool would be unnecessary IMO.