2 schools at once?

missaloha

hi everyone,

i've not posted on this board before but i am just looking at preschools for my LO and wanted some advice.  she currently goes to a school i teach at, 5 days a week from 9-3.  we are moving this summer so i am scouting at schools for next year.  i found a school i really like but it is only 2-3 days a week from 9-12.  as i am expecting a baby in Sept, i really want LO to be at school, engaged with other kids (and not getting bored around a newborn), longer than 9 hours a week. 

there is another school i like that does offer 5 days, 9-2--so i was thinking of doing M-W-F at one and T-Th at the other, to get her more school time (and me more time solo with baby.  does anyone have experience with sending LO to 2 schools at once?

i should add--it doesn't seem as weird to me as many of the kids i teach do this.  however, i teach at a language immersion school, so a lot of the parents have their kids go half the time to our school, half the time to an English-speaking school.  but i just don't know if that's considered a little unusual or not.  thoughts?  tia!

Regina+Philangey

Why not just do m-f at the one school?

missaloha

because i really like the community, philosophy and structure of the M-W-F school . . . i'd love for LO to be a part of it.  oh well.

Wally3

DS is in "2 preschools"  He goes to speech at the local elementry school 2 times a week and to preschool 3 days.  He needs speech therapy and so it is what has to be done.  He seems okay with it - though he ask every morning what school he is going to.  He likes speech better but has fun at preschool too.

capulet

DD's first year of preschool, which she started right before she turned three, she did M/W at one preschool and T/Th at another.  She could have done the first M-Th but I really liked both of them.  She didn't have any problems going to two schools, but she is generally pretty adaptable.