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Just under $400/ month, for 5 mornings a week.
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We dropped out
But it was $15 a session (9-1130). Pretty cheap! Most kids go just 1-2 times a week. it is a not for profit pre school. So on top of that each kid has to fundraiser $150 for the year and provide a $30 Walmart gift card that is used to buy snacks.
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$890 a month for MWF all day
ETA: It's a private pre-K program, it's actually the pre-K feed for a private school.
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Ours is at our daycare, so it's 6:30 - 5:30 every day and costs $215/week ($932/month, $43/day, $3.90/hour).
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Private, accredited, not part of a daycare, costs $10,500 for the school year, 5 days, 8:45-1pm, Northeast US.
Were there less expensive options? Yes, but the fit is so important.
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@Ree723: Right, free as in paid for by taxes! It was the same in Switzerland, it's free, but man, did we pay a lot of taxes.
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@looch: Lol, true! But our taxes actually aren't much different than they were in the States and when you consider all the things we don't have to pay for (healthcare being the main one), we're actually much better off here. I do think Switzerland pays more than the UK though, more in line with Scandinavia I think, but I'm not 100% on that.
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@Ree723: That's an internal debate I have with myself all the time, funny that you mention it...where are we really better off. So many pros and cons!
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We're thinkining of
Moving to your area and are looking at the co-op! It's 225 a month but the days are short. Still, hard to pass that up! I had been looking at the Montessori option which may be the one your son is in? Anyway wanted to let you know about the co-op in case you hadn't heard of it! A couple moms from a local playgroup have been raving about it. -
@Adira: WHAT?? How?
Ours is $1667/month for 5x/week, 7:45-5:30 with SIGNIFICANT (20%) financial aid off the cost of total tuition.
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@PrincessBaby: That's cheap!
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@JoJoGirl: I pay a nanny $14 an hour for 5 FT days a week so the combination of the two sucks! Next year I can get her into MWF half days and it's only like $500, but there wasn't an opening this year and we'd been on a wait list so I just had to suck it up. I guess it's good to know it could be worse!
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@PrincessBaby: Oh yeah paying for that on top of a nanny is a lot. I don't understand how all the other kids in LO's school pay full price AND have a nanny at home too?? Whenever they close we are scrambling for back-up, and I always email the other moms to ask about doing a babysitter share and get denied cause they all have nannies! Mind blowing!
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@JoJoGirl: You probably live closer to Boston than I do - everything is more expensive there! And our daycare is probably one of the most affordable ones in our area - all the others were definitely more expensive.
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$775 per month for 5 days (8:45 - 2:00 M-TH and 8:45 - 12:00 F). That's about $8/hr. Of course we have 5 weeks of breaks (thanksgiving, Christmas, parent teacher conference, and spring), and the school year starts in September and ends on the third week of May.
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FL offers free PreK to all 4 year olds. Its 15 hrs/week (9-12am 5 days a week usually). Most daycares, centers, churches, and some schools are providers. So our normal rate at the church was $700/month (7:30-5:30 or about $3.5/hour assuming 200 hours per week). With the state paid VPK hours, it brings it down to $520/month.
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$600/month for Montessori preschool, 5 days/week, 6.5 hours/day.
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@winniebee: The other problem Iāve found in our area is the lack of real FT preschools, where āfull timeā doesnāt require that at least 1 parent SAHs or only works PT. Frustrating. Our preschool is about $1300 a month.
Iām currently looking for private all-day kindergarten and havenāt found one less than $16,000 a year yet. womp, fun times lay ahead.
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@yoursilverlining: Yes! most pre-schools near us, other than ours, are 8-2 at best. And our place is charging $29K for full-time next year
We're just going to bank on significant aid like this year. And it's not Montessori, just normal preschool.
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Ours will be around $1800/month for full time (M-F, 7:30am to 6pm if needed) private Montessori preschool.
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?!?!? i am floored at these prices !Our daycare has a morning preschool session and then regular daycare activities in the aftn...its $26 for the day, or $15 a day if you just want the am preschool
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@yoursilverlining: yup T goes to PG and you can pay extra for aftercare and before care but come on at 1300 for pre-k I've gotta pay an extra 20 bucks a day on top of that?
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@winniebee: @yoursilverlining: Yeah, just looked into the co-op more and it looks like a working moms nightmare. Sorry about that! We're looking at PG as well. Seems like the cheaper side (for the amount of hours) for the area. It's bonkers.
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@winniebee: @knittylady: what's PG? You have me intrigued!
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4k is public in our city, 3hours/day 4x/week... so it's free. There are programs at some of the local elementary schools and at some of the local daycares. He'll go to the program at his current daycare, so we don't have to worry about transportation.
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@yoursilverlining: walled you
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Our preschool (which is really daycare) is $220/week. But we'll actually get a 20% sibling discount when he starts in the preschool class so it'll only be $176/week.
Total for the two kids will be about $2k/month and we're considering doing daycare for 3 days and nanny for 2 days, and that would still be around $2k I think. Or maybe a morning nanny, and that will be more expensive but convenient every day. Decisions, decisions.
@yoursilverlining: Wow, that's a lot for Kindergarten! We're in MA which is generally more expensive and the two closesest private kindergartens are about $13k (Montessori) and $8k (Catholic). Of course there's after school fees on top of that.
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@yoursilverlining: will wall u!
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We pay $179/wk for the preschool class (the younger classes are more...I think the infant room is closer to $275/wk) for about 9 hrs a day and includes 2 meals and a snack....which is just under $4/day. He's at a Hildebrant Learning Center, which was recently acquired by Bright Horizons.
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@hilsy85: yup. I can't even read these posts bc I just want to cry
I think ours comes out to about $40 per hour per kid (for 2 days a week at 2.5 hours each day).
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These posts make me want to cry and move! We're in the general NYC area and do a combination of in-home caregiver (2 days/week) and a full day nursery school with extended hours (3 days/week). When all is said and done, between the 2 programs it's scary expensive, like close to $1,700/month. Ouch.
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@JoJoGirl: I hear you...That is the nice thing that when they're closed, it doesn't matter, or if she's sick, it doesn't matter, bc she can just stay home with the nanny and the baby. I don't really have a choice though bc I work 50+ hours a week and I'd never be able to make everything work if I had 2 drop-offs and 2 pickups. Oh and I solo parent 50% of the time, with no family nearby, so I just have to suck it up and pay out the wahoo for a nanny until they're both old enough to go to preK every day, all-day. So we've got at least a year and a half more of paying for a nanny for LO2. She can go to summer camp at the private pre-K starting end of May 2017. Siblings get first dibs, fortunately, before outside children get in. That's why LO1 was wait listed for so long and we had to jump on the opening they gave us.
It's all so crazy bc I just stayed in daycare until I went to kindergarten and I'm fine! But I feel like that isn't good enough, and I don't know why. That being said, my LO turned 3 in Dec and she knows ABCs, can count to at least 20 or so, and knows days of the week, months, can spell her name - it's amazing, so I tell myself it's worth it.
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@PrincessBaby: yup we've got the school plus nanny situation too. Yay.
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@winniebee: we have a church preschool in an affluent neighboring town and it's $30/day half day and $50/day full, pretty amazing for this area, I'd say!
J goes twice a week half days and we can add additional days as needed.ETA it's also an affiliate of one of the best private boys school in the country.
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@PrincessBaby: Oh trust me, if we could afford it, we would. DH and I also both work full-time with no family nearby, hence my absolute terror about what we're going to do with #2 when daycare alone will run us $50K in this area. DH will be solo parenting in the am, and I do in the evenings, so all I can think to do is get a 12 year old mother's helper who will be cheap to help out? I have no idea. Right now when school is closed or LO gets sick we either pay a high school sitter to come (for holidays) or I have to take unpaid time because I have no PTO left
it's really not a sustainable situation.
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ours is $1300/month full time preschool. at least 1.5 more years for the oldest and 3.5 years for the younger (his tuition is $1700/month right now).
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We do full time preschool + daycare so it comes out to $1,220/month. Summer camp has an additional $50 fee and there is an annual $100 insurance fee and $100 enrollment fee.
They offer just morning session preschool ranging from $485/month for 2 days a week to $895/month for 5 days a week. But since DH and I both work we need the daycare too.
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@knittylady: Co-ops really only work for SAHM. And even hard for them if you have more than 1 child.
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Ours is not bad, I send full day Monday - Friday. $1,340 for the month.
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Last year, it was $90 a month for two days a week 9-12. This year we switched to a different preschool and it's $210 a month for three days a week, 9-12. Next year will be $265 a month for five days a week, 9-12:30.
We're just going to bank on significant aid like this year. And it's not Montessori, just normal preschool.
it's really not a sustainable situation.
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