Holy expensive preschools

amyfelice · January 2011

Ok, I know that preschool is variable like everything else, but some of these schools are charging more than I paid for my college education. Granted it was a long time ago but wow! Then they act like they are doing you a big favor by even letting you come for a tour. Ok, vent over!!!

m&m818 · January 2011

Word. Its one of the main reasons we are holding off to closer to 3.

mcunningham · January 2011

isnt in insane? we are sending tyler to a new preschool next year and for 3 days a week, for 3 hours - it is $6,330! that is just mind-boggling to me.

futrkingsley · January 2011

Yup, they are spendy. The cost of daycare in general is crazy.

AvaLikeLava · January 2011

mcunningham:
isnt in insane? we are sending tyler to a new preschool next year and for 3 days a week, for 3 hours - it is $6,330! that is just mind-boggling to me.

I'm sorry... WHAT?!?!?!? 6K a MONTH? Our preschool, full time, 7am-6pm is $1250. That's with lunch included. Now granted, it's not a Montessouri program, but holy cr@p!!!!

lunabeam · January 2011

I am just starting to research this too. Sticker shock is right!

I am saddened by the reality that I'm probably going to have to go back to working 5 days per week just to afford a few mornings of preschool per week.

mcunningham · January 2011

oh sorry! i should have clarified - that is for 10 months, not 1 month. there is no way would could afford to pay that much every month!!

serendipityRox · January 2011

I almost posted this exact same thing. We went to 3 different pre-k's and the cheapest was $525. Seriously...I think that's a rip. I wish I made $525 for 20 hours of work a week. AND I'm a teacher...not that pre-k teachers are without education but you certainly don't have to have a B.A....or a credential...or a grad degree. Most teachers I teach with have all of the above and still don't make this for 20 hours of work. Oh, and we have 25-35 kids, not 15 per class.

amyfelice · January 2011

yeah, you'd better be serving my kid caviar for $1600/month! Yikes.

Fortunately there are a few that are not as out of control. What really kills me is that these places are all full! Everyone wants to make sure their kid is on the right track for college from the age of 2.

At one school I can't even get anyone on the phone. It has gone from my first choice to practically off my list for this reason. How can I send my baby to a place that I can't even find a human being to talk to?

serendipityRox · January 2011

And let me add, that was for 4 hours a day...if I needed all day after care it was twice as much!

EmmieB · January 2011

serendipityRox:
I almost posted this exact same thing. We went to 3 different pre-k's and the cheapest was $525. Seriously...I think that's a rip. I wish I made $525 for 20 hours of work a week. AND I'm a teacher...not that pre-k teachers are without education but you certainly don't have to have a B.A....or a credential...or a grad degree. Most teachers I teach with have all of the above and still don't make this for 20 hours of work. Oh, and we have 25-35 kids, not 15 per class.

I worked at a preschool where this was the tuition and I made $400/wk (roughly) - and I was working 40 hrs....so what they charge is not comparative to what they pay.

I see what you're saying, thought.

Anyway - the tuition is the main reason I'm on the pre-school home school bandwagon. Or a co-op.

serendipityRox · January 2011

Obviously the money goes towards more than just the care providers' pay...I just feel like that the cost of preschool is cost prohibitive in an unnecessary way.

fricksgirl · January 2011

serendipityRox:
Obviously the money goes towards more than just the care providers' pay...I just feel like that the cost of preschool is cost prohibitive in an unnecessary way.

I absolutely agree. I know Alex's program for PreK costs an arm and a leg, and it's completely shameful how little those teachers get paid. I know they do not have to have qualifications and a lot of them don't, but seriously I don't know how they live on how little they are paid. It's like, WHERE does that money go? Straight into some a$$holes pocket, that's for sure.

Thinking about this, health care, etc, gets me all riled up (especially when you consider the salaries of our professional atheletes! Don't even get me started!). Our priorities in this country are so messed up.

amyfelice · January 2011

I think some of it may just be rent, or mortgage payments, then they probably have a lot of licensing fees, and some is probably for improvements to the school, but yeah, in some of these pricey schools the ratio isn't even that great!

as far as homeschool, my whole goal here is to get her socialized with some other kids. She has some little friends, but no one her age that she sees on a really regular basis.

EmmieB · January 2011

serendipityRox:
Obviously the money goes towards more than just the care providers' pay...I just feel like that the cost of preschool is cost prohibitive in an unnecessary way.

I agree. fully.

EmmieB · January 2011

amyfelice:
I think some of it may just be rent, or mortgage payments, then they probably have a lot of licensing fees, and some is probably for improvements to the school, but yeah, in some of these pricey schools the ratio isn't even that great!
as far as homeschool, my whole goal here is to get her socialized with some other kids. She has some little friends, but no one her age that she sees on a really regular basis.

the socialization is important, and harder to do when you homeschool, for sure.

tiki_t · January 2011

amyfelice:
I think some of it may just be rent, or mortgage payments, then they probably have a lot of licensing fees, and some is probably for improvements to the school, but yeah, in some of these pricey schools the ratio isn't even that great!
as far as homeschool, my whole goal here is to get her socialized with some other kids. She has some little friends, but no one her age that she sees on a really regular basis.

I have started to discover ways to socialize the kids without being charged an arm and a leg. Check with your local library for age appropriate reading hours. Also keep visiting parks until you find a group of moms/nannies and kids that you mesh with. As she gets older, if you do traditional homeschool, my SIL did that by signing up for a co-op one. She did most of the lessons herself with the kids but at least once a week they would meet with other home schooled kids for socialization/field trip activities.

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