Private or public kindergarden?

Dear friends,

My son will go to kindergarten in this fall. Now we are thinking which kindergarten that he should go. His current pre-school also has kindergarten program, only one class, about 16 kids, the time is from 8:30 to 3:30, the cost is about $1700. Or he can go to the kindergarten of the public school (his old brother is there and he will be in 4th grade). The public kindergarten is only half day, for the afternoon, he has to stay at the after-school care program in the school, the after-school care program costs about $550, kids mainly play there.

My idea is to go to the private one, which sounds pretty good, he will certainly learn more (they mainly learn first-grade stuff there). It is a full-day program and they always have lots of performance. But my hu*****and thinks he should go to public kindergarten. He does not care if my son can learn more, he think the important thing for the kids in kindergarden is to get familiar with the school, be ready for the first-grade and play. He thinks the cost of the private kindergarden does not worth it, he can use this amount of money to sign lots of activities for my son.

These days, we are arguing about this a lot. What do you guys think? Do your kids go to public or private kindergarten?

Thank you so much for your time.

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• 你老公是对的 -听听意见- ♀ (44 bytes) () 03/06/2008 postreply 08:18:39

• 我当年是让孩子自己挑的，他挑继续在私校，因为同学都已经认识了。 -britannica- ♀ (118 bytes) () 03/06/2008 postreply 08:22:48

• Recommend private kindergarden -W007- ♀ (408 bytes) () 03/06/2008 postreply 08:43:18

• Of course public school kindergarten! -on-the-road- ♀ (1264 bytes) () 03/06/2008 postreply 08:47:56

• 为什么不上个私立k-12的学校，一举两得。 -另一个- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/06/2008 postreply 09:03:13

• agree your husband. He will feel lonely when he transfers at 1st -飘雪的日子- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/06/2008 postreply 09:22:51

• Private. My elder kid went to the best public and younger one to -swj2000- ♀ (219 bytes) () 03/06/2008 postreply 10:38:49