This feels like a good average globally, right? You have multiple staff per room (hopefully!) + admin staff + cook who need to pay their own rent+spending, then add the costs+mintenance of the daycare itself. Unless government-subsidised, I'd expect the daycare costs to be in the same ballpark as the local rent.
In this world where rent is your dominant monthly cost, totally agree. The teacher student ratio for infants here is 1:3, honestly it should maybe be more.
Would be nice if rents were a smaller total of our living expenses though. Everyone would have more breathing room.