I'm looking at a couple different preschools for my children. I've been to 3 schools, a Montessori school, Cooperative school, and a Spanish Immersion school. I like the teaching style of the Montessori. I like the community/family involvement of the Cooperative school. My children already know ASL and basic Spanish and I think to be in an immersion school would help them become fluent in a third language. What are your opinions? What kind of preschool did you send your children to?

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My kids went to a cooperative school. My DD is still there and we love it. We like it because of the family centered atmosphere. My DS is still friends with the kids he went to preschool with. My DS went to Montessori for his 3 year old class.. It didn't work well for us, because of the curbside drop off and the school was going to require the kids to go 5 days....I thought that was too much for a 3 year old so we found a different school.
Plus the co-op is much cheaper

I sent my DD's to my church preschool. The atmosphere is what really sold me. The kids were all happy and got along so well. If a kid fell on the playground everyone huddled around them trying to make them feel better. They were all doing things academically that seemed advanced but the teachers didn't make it seem like work. I am not a hugely relgious person so the religion part was not as important but I just got such a good feeling watching the kids. The teachers can put on an act when the parents are looking around but the kids attitudes will never lie. I also liked the diversity. We live intown and have every type of people from all over the world and everyone is welcome. If you do like the atmosphere the multi lingual school would be great. Kids need to be exposed early if they are really to pick up a language fluently. It will help them all their lives.

We did a co-op. We really liked it, and the price The only alternatives local to us would have been religious (which we did not want) or more daycare type (which ran over $25 a day while co-op was about $6 a day).

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I think a foreign language-immersion program sounds wonderful, and I know lots of people like the Montessori model.

I checked out all of the programs in our area, and chose the program that was run by the teachers I was most impressed with. I think I've even improved my parenting watching the teacher my DD has! To me, the teacher makes the program.

Montesorri was the right choice for my baby. The learning style was right for him. He ended up staying there for K instead of going to public K.

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