The Joy Of Learning

To move or not to move?

The tenancy agreement for the present building is up for renewal this July, and we have to decide to renew the tenancy or  move to another building.  If we decide to move, we would definitely need to hire one of the moving services to help with the moving. Honestly speaking, IMHO it is not a bad choice for a Montessori school, though it’s in the middle of everything and outside the school can be quite noisy, but once you close the door, it’s very secluded and can hardly hear anything even the sky falling down.

It’s an old shop house that is long and spacious, without pillars in the middle nor nooks and corners, quite suitable for displaying all the Montessori materials. The setback is, there is no outdoor space. We do have an indoor backyard, where we have plants and pets(for the children to take care) and a little space that children can play indoor games.

This rental for this place is very inexpensive, we rented this double storey cornered shop house with more than 4000 square feet of built up areas for  a rental of seven hundred fifty bucks per month. The ground floor is used for pre-school and first floor is used mainly for tutoring classes and office.

I realized that this is not a very attractive place to parents, as we are so accustomed to the idea that pre-schools must have that little plastic slide/seesaw/ swing set, otherwise, it’s not properly equipped.

I have an ex-colleague who owned a semi-D just 2 minutes away from the present building, he is willing to let the place to me to run a pre-school, but the rental is a bit steep, he wants to rent out the place for one thousand two hundreds. Although I do think moving to a brand new building with outdoor space will make us more visible and more attractive to more parents, one of the main reason I am able to survive at this present place is because the overhead is not very high. .

But, I also think if the rental is too expensive, then I would have more pressure to not follow the Montessori way faithfully and change the curriculum to meet parents’ expectations. So, there is a lot to consider and a lot to think through. :-)

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