"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire" - W B Yeats

[anastasiav]

I'm starting to realize that I really, strongly (more strongly than I had realized) want E to go to a good pre-school starting in the Fall. Something with a Montessori or Waldorf theory behind it. Unfortunately, any such school in my area that offers such a program is also far out of our financial reach -- around $13K (including extended day fees, because we would need him to be there for an entire workday, not just the half-day formal preschool). And that's only for a school year ... we'd still need to find and pay for care for him in the summer. A couple of schools do offer financial assistance, but only once the child is school aged. No assistance is offered for pre-K.

So, yeah, another way I'm failing him, I guess.

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[mylisant.livejournal.com]

Is Freeport too far?

This place looks to be $7K for their school-year for three full days and two half days per week which is their recommended schedule for the preschoolers.

They have lots of other options as far as "days/mornings per week" maybe there's something there that you can afford? Some is better than none?

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

No, Freeport works because of Josh.

That's very interesting -- I'll give them a call next week.

Of course, I'm not sure what we'd do with him from 230 pm until Josh gets out of work, but Josh's mother's recent retirement makes that somewhat easier....

Thanks!