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[quote=Anonymous]Not from DC.

My religious community, which is far away from us, started a preschool last year.  We wanted a faith-based school for our daughter and are really involved in the community, so we put her in, and I accepted a board position.  The tuition was really too much but we applied for and got a scholarship by doing a very rigorous application with a ton of financial disclosures.  The school started for 2-3 year olds, and she was a little young but they were operating under a variance at the time so they put her in the 2 year old class a few months early.  We switched her away from a perfectly good school that we liked and that was much more convenient and a bit more affordable, out of desire to support the religious community.

That was a year ago.  In general everything is fine, and if it were a convenient/affordable school we would not be considering switching.  But to be honest, I expected better in a number of respects, one of which is that they are planning on holding her back and repeating the 2 year old class again, which will likely cause her potty training to regress and she's verbally way more advanced than the new 2 year olds.  And the commute is worse than I expected--about 30 minutes one way in the morning and can be up to 45 in the afternoon, meaning that between the two of us DH and I are in the car for over 2 hours a day. Also, the board is a bit dysfunctional and the dynamic makes me nervous--not that this affects my kid's day to day, but there's this undercurrent of, is this place going to make it?  And air of anxiety that I just don't think is helpful.

The main reasons not to switch are (1) more transition for DD - after we already switched her a year ago.  (2) we care about the faith-based aspect of the school, and the alternative school is a secular school (but we would have a lot more time and money to give her religious education if we switched).  (3) it could get awkward with me being on the board and us being so involved in the community, but I would offer to stay on the board or leave as they preferred.

Thanks all![/quote]

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