The preschool program is three days a week for 2 1/2 hours each day. I know that they originally only planned on having 16 children in the class with 2 adults but some of their former students didn't sign up early and would have been shut out, which they didn't want to do. I'm definitely going to talk to them about this and suggest that they add an afternoon preschool class as well. Right now they have the preschool class on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 9-11:30am. They could easily add another class on those same days from 1:30 to 4:00 or something similar. Where I am you have to register your child months in advance in order to even get into a preschool so I'd like to try to work something out here before I take her out. If I do remove her I might not find anything else and I really don't want her to go from nothing at all to five full days a week in Kindergarten next year.
Other than the teacher/student ratio issue I absolutely LOVE this place. The teachers are SO nice and they encourage a lot of open communication. I'm sure they only wanted to give their former students a chance to be in the class too and thought that since there were always going to be five adults available that there wouldn't be a problem. The daycare room is across the hall from the preschool room but there still wouldn't be three full time people in there at all times. That's my concern. I'm definitely going to talk to them about it.
