RIVERVIEW CO-OP

Why a Co-op?

What’s in it for the parents?

1.     A co-op is a parent’s school as much as it is a child’s school.  Parents work in it, give their energy and ideas to it and help to shape it and make it whatever it becomes by putting themselves into the school.

2.     Co-op parents see, on a regular basis, their child’s behavior in the group, they see other children’s behavior and they see a school program at work.

3. Co-op parents tend to be hipped on good education.  They don’t want the ordinary; they want the very best for their children.

4.    The co-op parents own lives take on more significance because they are “in” on such a vital process of helping a child grow well.

5.     Co-op parents find new friends for themselves at school.

6.     A cooperative nursery always costs less than a comparably good private school.  Co-op parents pour their time, energy, sweat and skills into their school.

What’s in it for the children?

1.     Co-ops usually have more adults present than do standard nursery schools, with the trained teacher on hand plus several parent-assistants.

2.   There is more of a chance for individual attention at cooperative preschools.  There can also be a greater richness and variety in the co-op programs.

3.     In a co-op, “school” doesn’t stop at the end of the school day, nor does it end on Friday.  A co-op child is apt to be surrounded by a common point of view twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. 

4.    The child is apt to get more consistency in guidance and more richness in stimulation; home and school and school and home.