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It has become the most difficult task to choose a PreSchool for the kid. Its understandable that we always want the best for our kids. We would even strive hard put in extra effort and earn sufficient money, but just fail to understand that spending higher amounts and doing the best for our kids would make them highly talented. No.

   Of all the PreSchools we visited in our area private schools were awesome, just like a 5 star hotel. Clean facilities, lots of activities for the kid. We saw that they are giving laptops to those tiny tots, teaching them C as young as 1st grader or 2nd grader. Director of the school proudly told us that 1st grader would be taught 2nd graders curriculum, and 2nd graders would be taught 3rd graders and so on. Mind boggling, does that mean kids already know much more. May be yes. Kids are by birth smarter today than we were. My kid atleast was born with a laptop(not with a silver spoon), I bought her a toy laptop and she hates that, she wants to use regular laptop. She already know how to type, say mouse and even how to start and shutdown a system. Simple toggle blue glowing button :).

  Coming to the point private schools were so expensive $14000 per year fee for kid as young as 3 and with the facilities of 5 star grade. Its the amount my father might have spent for whole of my schooling and graduation.

And then the second one is public school, decent enough, not very big facility, comparatively less activities compared to private one, there is no laptops for the kids, not even a computer. Just old conventional kind of school. Just 2 days a week and 3 hours a day unlike 5 day week and full day classes in private school.

Third was Montessori school which is also private one, and it is also 5 star. Classes are filled with kids of different ages so that young kids would learn good stuff from old ones (and old ones would learn how to be naughty from young ones :) ). Class has rules and all kids are expected to follow them. They can choose what they want to do. Not a bad idea, than force the kid to learn what is taught. Have got good reviews from parents who have had their kids in them. Oh forgot when we visited little older kids did some architecture display, we were so impressed by it. Really those items on display would make any top notch architects very proud and see the kind competition he would face in coming years. Children are taught all kinds of practical things. Simply great.

As expected Montessori and Private schools are expensive and the Public School was not. We feel so bad that we are talking education in monetory terms. But its the fact, people with higher incomes can buy good education for their kids and it is a bad statement.We dont want to buy my kid education, we want to give education.

We are really confused as any parent can be. Whether to make our kid join the private, montessori or public school. May be we are stupid and did'nt study in a Private school :)
 

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