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GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@BandDmommy: yep, it's definitely regional, we're in MI.
grapefruit / 4717 posts
I can't believe these rates. You really don't want to know what we will have to pay annually for full-time care at the new preschool we're looking at. It is insane in the San Francisco Bay Area.
pomelo / 5660 posts
@pregnantbee: mine is only 2 days for 3 hours and it's $500 a month..
pomegranate / 3643 posts
@pregnantbee: I think full time care is a whole different ballgame! That's why I was just asking about part time programs.
Eta: I just noticed this got moved from education to child care. That might be why it's confusing. I wasn't talking about child care though! (Even though some child cares do have preschools!)
eggplant / 11716 posts
I just looked up the tuition for the Montessori closest to our house and tuition is 14000/year for a half day schedule from 8:30-11:30, 5 days a week. So 15 hours a week is 1,167 a month. Yikes!
eggplant / 11716 posts
@pregnantbee: same for us. Even part time programs here are expensive BUT it's kind of a bad school district so we get free pre-k 3 and pre-k 4 here, and then you just have to pay before and after care.
Full time preschool is over 2000/month and all the part time programs I've seen are over 1000 for just a few hours. Sometimes I wonder why we live here when we're about to have 2. Blah.
pomegranate / 3706 posts
Montessori for next year, 3 days a week for a couple of hours, and private pre-k for the next, 5 mornings a week, both $300-$599/ mo. range.
eggplant / 11287 posts
$165 a month for two 2.5-hour sessions a week (Tues thurs).
grapefruit / 4584 posts
$570/month plus a hefty registration fee for a 2.5-3.5 yr old to go for three hours a morbing 2x/week. And that's cheap for this neighborhood. The places with flashier classrooms are close to double.
cantaloupe / 6751 posts
The preschool we are planning on sending her to next year is $400/month for 3 hours, 3 mornings a week.
pineapple / 12234 posts
@Rainbow Sprinkles: wait, Is W doing 2 day?!? I thought she was doing 3!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
The school we are looking at is $600-$800/month for 5 half days 830-1130. Depending on age, the price decrease happens at 30 months, Ds is 27 now.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
DD is in 3 days a week for roughly 3.5 hours/day.
Tuition is $705/month + 50 bucks for playball.
kiwi / 584 posts
we have both public and private, the public programs are with the elementary school and are tuition based unless the child qualifies for speech etc.
the tuition slots are highly coveted and based on a lottery system, we're hoping we get in!!!
pomegranate / 3375 posts
We start Monday. It's $896/month for 4 days a week (29 hours). ... They take 5 weeks off a year, and we pay for 52 weeks, which is annoying.
pomegranate / 3983 posts
@macintosh: our area has free public preschool for 3 and 4 year olds. We actually enrolled our 3 year old but then very quickly pulled him out because it was pretty bad! Private schools here are insanely expensive, so we kept him home and supplement with some classes.
grapefruit / 4819 posts
All kids are entitled to 15 hours of free childcare/education from their third birthday (we're in the UK). You can choose to use it in a public school, private nursery (preschool), childcare setting, or an in home childminder. We don't want to send our children out for that many hours at such a young age so we are going with a private nursery for two mornings per week, 2.5 hr sessions. Totally free.
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