"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.

Comments

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

There is no public pre-K in my community, unless he needed "special intervention" which he doesn't.

I just think he's starting to go beyond what he's getting at Sarah's, or what I can give him. And he's turning into a child who had difficulty with transitions, so I'd like to get him in more structured days sooner rather than later I think.

[goodscagirl.livejournal.com]

Is there a local church pre-k or Head start?