How much do/did you pay for preschool?

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May 6, 2013 18:39:37 GMT -5 margotmacomber said:

May 6, 2013 18:38:05 GMT -5 anlo said:

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.

I originally tried to do a program like this for David but I started him in November of last year and all of these places were full and had waiting lists. I wanted to start him right away so went with a preschool instead. Plus, we're not really religious but I've had friends use these programs and have good results.

eta: sorry, I thought I was quoting about the religious MDO programs affiliated with churches.

[somersault72]

$240/month for 3 mornings a week (3 hours/day)

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May 6, 2013 22:21:03 GMT -5 @kande818 said:

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 am so very lucky in that my DS's babysitter picks him up and watches him the rest of the day. We are switching him to full day through the public school system next year partly because the pre K program at his current school is 4 half days. Which is convenient for about noone unless you SAH full time. His babysitter works PT on the days he isn't there and there is no way that I could ask her to watch him and pick him up 4 damn days.

[litebright]

May 6, 2013 22:21:03 GMT -5 @kande818 said:

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 send my DD1 for 2.5 hours, four days a week. This is her second year. I was a FT SAHM the first year, this year we have a nanny who comes 20 hours a week b/c I've started WAH. I drop off, she picks up. 

I love DD1's preschool, but DD2 is going to a different, full-time one starting this fall b/c I need more than 2.5-3 hours a day to get my work done, and paying for full-day kindergarten+part-time preschool+nanny makes zero sense. I may try to get her into the full day option at DD1's school for her second year of preschool, but it filled up too fast this year and I wasn't sure the logistics would work this year. 

[felixfelicis]

DD goes 5 days a week and it's $980 per month.

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May 6, 2013 14:37:27 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

The Montessori preschool we will enroll them in once they are 2 is about 22k per calendar year per kid for 3 days a week. I have twins. It sucks, but its actually one of the cheaper options around here. I dont know what we will do for the 2.5 months of summer break.

22k? X2? Please tell me this is a typo or I'm not reading this correctly.

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May 8, 2013 5:04:46 GMT -5 ErinExpat said:

May 6, 2013 14:37:27 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

The Montessori preschool we will enroll them in once they are 2 is about 22k per calendar year per kid for 3 days a week. I have twins. It sucks, but its actually one of the cheaper options around here. I dont know what we will do for the 2.5 months of summer break.

22k? X2? Please tell me this is a typo or I'm not reading this correctly.

Not a typo.  VHCOL area.  Its not as pricey as some of the other places I was looking but couldn't stomach the cost.   Its not that crazy when I think about our nanny's salary or how much it would be to have them in daycare.

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Just under 7k for the year (full day 5 days a week). That is with a 1/3 discount.