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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"However, the management is a nightmare -- strange, ego-driven, rigid, and completely unwilling to look at parents' perspective.
 
One year they suddenly raised fees for the after care portion by over 100% with no notice. When a group of parents strenuously objected, the response was that they didn't really approve of after care anyway and shouldn't we have a parent staying home with the kids after they finished the Montessori program anyway?
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I have heard this many times now about that school. Your annecdote about the after care fees is horrifying to me since it indicates they look down on working parents. I don't want my school critidizing my family's choices or making life harder than it needs to be. Why anyone would sign up there after the huge mismanagement of the charter is mystifying.[/quote]

Yes, it was particularly interesting in light of the Montessori philosophy that kids ages 2 and a half and older should be in the Montessori program five days a week (this is indeed part of the philosophy).  So they insisted that kids enroll for five days -- fair enough, but parents who want to do that are typically working parents who need childcare for the day.  People aren't going to pay those fees for the full day if they are sacrificing income to stay home with kids.

But the "head of school" was quite contemptuous of workiing mothers and didn't really try to hide that.[/quote]
Which mothers don't work??[/quote]

:roll: [/quote]

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