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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YES, most people will likely see some savings once daycare has ended. NO, it will not be as much as you might hope. Kindergarten and early elementary are pretty cheap, but costs will creep up after that, culminating in the bloodletting that is college, for those who go that route.[/quote]
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I naively thought I would get the $1500/kid/month back into my budget when my kids got out of daycare and went to public school.  Ha!  Between care for all the teacher workdays and vacations, after-school care, and summer camp (and not fancy summer camp, either, mostly parks and rec camp), it was [i]maybe [/i]lower by half.  My kids are in elementary school, and they do not do nearly as many activities as their friends - and no travel anything or expensive activities like horseback riding, and it's [i]still[/i] expensive.  (We also have additional costs related to tutoring and therapy for our child with special needs, but that's situation specific and hopefully most people will not have to go through it.  And the public school is doing a less-than-mediocre job educating the SN kid, so that increases our costs filling in the gaps, too.)[/quote]

If your costs are lower by a half it's a big deal.[/quote]

[b]Yeah did you think all those costs would just vanish once daycare was over? Kids are expensive, duh.[/quote][/b]

Right?  Pretty obvious stuff here. [/quote]

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