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[quote=Anonymous]Please help me to figure out if I should change the current daycare. My soon-to-be 3 year old kid has been at current popular chain daycare for 6 months 5 days a week full day, and he loves it there, costs $1700 a month. We drop him off at 7:30am and pick up at 5:30pm. His lunch & nap time hours are from noon-3:30pm daily.

Starting in October, he is going to get bused to a county preschool program 5 days a week from 8:30-noon (including transportation time) for free. And, I also have to pull him out from current daycare 2 times a week to take him to see OT/ST at 3pm. We are in Montgomery County, and I understand that the free county preschool program is closed in summer months and certain days following MCPS calendar/weather closing days while the current daycare will be opened. We have no family in the area, and we both are 2 working parents full time. Should I continue to let my son stay at current preschool (costs $1700 a month) starting in October even though half of the days he will be bused to other preschool program & he mainly spending time at the current daycare eating lunch/napping without much exposure to daycare curriculum? His current daycare preschool curriculum is from 9am to noon daily. Or should I try to find a cheaper daycare option (like family care) to enroll my son in? We can afford $1700/month, but we just feel that our son does not learn/get much out from the current daycare with the new arrangement. And, we have a feeling that we are actually losing money. I partly want to suck it up to continue to pay $1700/month, but I partly want to save a couple hundreds a month to find cheaper options for his OT/ST therapies/weekend hobbies. And, we are expecting a new baby soon. Any thoughts?[/quote]

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