new Montessori school on Washington Ave.

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yeah, unfortunately it costs b/t $15k - $20k per year to send your child there, according to their website. who can afford this in our neighborhood?

d-miriam wrote: yeah, unfortunately it costs b/t $15k - $20k per year to send your child there, according to their website. who can afford this in our neighborhood?

People who can pay the going price of 1.5M for a brownstone in our neighborhood with a 300K deposit and 90K/year repayments could probably afford that.

I was also very lucky: some Americans came to my birthcountry when I was a kid and happened to open the first school the year I started, right nearby where we lived; my mother had never heard of Montessori but found out about it by accident by overhearing a conversation in the local library.

not that I am in favor of $$$ preschool, but to be fair, the $20,000 price tag is for the *50* hour a week, 12 month "plan" - that's 2600 hours of preschool, at ~$7.60 an hour (if you don't include the few weeks of holidays - whatever - it's still under $8/hour). all things being equal, that's certainly a reasonable price for full time childcare, which is what it essentially boils down to, at that number of hours..