"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

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

I am a product of a public school education up until my graduation from high school. School isn't the only place that children learn and, ultimately, he will get out of school what he puts into it regardless of where he goes.

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

I won't have any problem putting him into public schools once he gets to be old enough. But if I want to get him into a "real" preschool, my choices are limited because we make too much to get into the subsidized ones but not enough to pay for the others.