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| I do work outside the home and did need full day coverage. We are calcuating that the cost should work out to be about the same than the traditional daycares (the ones at the top of the market) in our area. So, we're commmitted to a $10,000 budget item and Montessori is a much better ROI for those dollars. We figure we will spend the $$$ now, get a solid foundation, and then figure out the elementary years down the road when we get there. |
This is us. We live in a high COL and the yearly tuition (which includes an extended day program and runs from September to June) is about $13,000k. We pay an additional $1,500 for summer camp (same school). Nursery, daycare and preschool in our area costs about the same, so we feel very fortunate to have gotten DD in to the school that she is in. The school goes from 2 years to the equivalent of 8th grade. We'll probably keep her there as long as we can afford it.
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| Wow, that's awesome! Here it's about the same as the higher priced daycares. Doesn't it make you wonder why all those people send their children to those daycares, considering what they're like, and what they cost? Especially if a good Montessori education actually costs less? |
It would be much, much easier to send DD to a non-Montessori preschool in our neighborhood. There are three international Montessoris in the city (Manhattan; Queens; Brooklyn). We have to take a subway and a bus to get to her school every morning. It is an hour commute and then I still have to get back on the subway to go to work. Why do we do it? People in our neighborhood think we are crazy for jumping through all those hoops just to get to school, but we really feel strongly about the Montessori philosophy. If others aren't familiar with the philosophy or don't feel the importance of it - then I can understand why they wouldn't go out of their way to do it.
