Preschool and Taekwondo - Financially, life balances out
My 3 year old son attends two different preschools. On Mondays and Wednesdays, he goes to a half day class through the public school system to work with a speech therapist in a language-intense preschool class. His pediatrician expressed concern at his communication level at his 3-year well-child appointment, so we had him evaluated, and found that he does lag behind other children his age in expressed language (how well and complex he talks). Hence, the language-intense classroom. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, he attends another half day, mainstream preschool that he attended last year as well at our local church.
This is all about to change. The going back and forth between the two schools worked out okay as far as my son’s agreeableness to it and his enjoyment of it, but the constant change in routine made it hard for him to focus on language tasks when needed and he seemed to need a steep acclimation time for every day before he could focus. The school district representatives had a conference with us where we discussed our son’s progress and his speech delay is severe enough on its own to qualify him for a 5 day a week (still half days) program vs the 2 day a week one he is in. My spouse and I discussed it and thought about it, and agreed to move him from the class he is in to the 5 day one, which also necessitates pulling him out of the other Tuesday/Thursday preschool he is in. He starts at the new school after we return from our vacation.
How does this relate to personal finance? While all these discussions were going on, we also decided to start our son in taekwondo classes to help improve his ability to focus. The taekwondo classes cost money. The church-run preschool we are now taking him out of costs money. Funnily enough, the costs for the two almost equate. By the time we start paying for monthly taekwondo lessons, we will no longer be paying for preschool, and the budget will barely notice a ripple.
Odd. That’s really all I can say about it.
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