Why do aftercare programs don't provide more pickup options?

[Anonymous]

Can you hire a more reliable after care nanny and use drop-in aftercare if/when your regular childcare falls through?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you hire a more reliable after care nanny and use drop-in aftercare if/when your regular childcare falls through?

Yes this is what I am lookin for right now. Thanks

[Anonymous]

The real problem here is that your aftercare is absurdly expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this drive me crazy.

It's not like it's news to you that elementary school gets out between 3 and 3:30. Schools offer aftercare until 6pm because they recognize that many parents are not able to pick up their children at regular dismissal time. They have to staff the aftercare, pay the salaries of the people working there, buy materials, etc. Your kids take up 2 spots regardless of whether they are there for 45 minutes or 3 hours.

You had YEARS to come up with a plan for how to handle it. Maybe just let your kids stay at aftercare until the end of that program so that you are at least feeling like you get what you pay for.

NO need to drive yourself crazy, people have different needs. I am just asking a question.

[Anonymous]

At that rate, just hire a reliable nanny to do pick ups!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this drive me crazy.

It's not like it's news to you that elementary school gets out between 3 and 3:30. Schools offer aftercare until 6pm because they recognize that many parents are not able to pick up their children at regular dismissal time. They have to staff the aftercare, pay the salaries of the people working there, buy materials, etc. Your kids take up 2 spots regardless of whether they are there for 45 minutes or 3 hours.

You had YEARS to come up with a plan for how to handle it. Maybe just let your kids stay at aftercare until the end of that program so that you are at least feeling like you get what you pay for.

Also I would rather spend that extra 2 hours with my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this drive me crazy.

It's not like it's news to you that elementary school gets out between 3 and 3:30. Schools offer aftercare until 6pm because they recognize that many parents are not able to pick up their children at regular dismissal time. They have to staff the aftercare, pay the salaries of the people working there, buy materials, etc. Your kids take up 2 spots regardless of whether they are there for 45 minutes or 3 hours.

You had YEARS to come up with a plan for how to handle it. Maybe just let your kids stay at aftercare until the end of that program so that you are at least feeling like you get what you pay for.

Also I would rather spend that extra 2 hours with my kids.

Then adjust your schedule so that you are leaving an hour earlier than you are and save yourself the hassle of the babysitter. It's ridiculous to expect a program to change its rules for your schedule when you are clearly not willing to adjust your own schedule in order to spend that time with your kids.

[Anonymous]

It's like you are asking a restaurant to make 3 sizes of hamburgers because you aren't hungry enough to finish the normal size. You leave the extra on the plate.

[Anonymous]

Posts like this drive me crazy because they are so self absorbed. The aftercare program is running a service. It needs to employ staff and maintain appropriate ratios. How could it manage pro-rating for early pick up times like child care at a gym? So the staff would only get paid for working an extra 45 min? Just think about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is the school that has aftercare until 6:30? That’s a good pickup option. Wish aftercare was from 7 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. for those parents that have different work hours.

One of the Murch aftercare programs allows you to pay an extra fee for the option to pick up by 6:30 (otherwise it's 6:00.)

[Anonymous]

You are paying for the slot, not the actual time used. If you want to pay someone for actual time, hire a babysitter for 45 minutes a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this drive me crazy because they are so self absorbed. The aftercare program is running a service. It needs to employ staff and maintain appropriate ratios. How could it manage pro-rating for early pick up times like child care at a gym? So the staff would only get paid for working an extra 45 min? Just think about it.

Seriously. OP is so typical self-absorbed DC.
"what do you mean, can't the aftercare staff work around MY needs? Surely the employees can manage to just live off of 45 minutes of salary because that's only childcare hours I need. What, the workers have set bills and need a full 3 hours of income?. NO way, I thought the world revolved around me!"

[Anonymous]

Hahahaha. I’m a teacher in another district and technically need beforecare for 15-20 minutes in the morning and aftercare for 30 minutes each afternoon. I pay over $600/month for this service. Because I even if I needed it for 15 minutes total per day I would have to pay full price for it. My kid likes it so it give Democrats me the chance to stay later at work to get stuff done or run an errand before picking him up.

You actually think that paying for minutes actually used is a business model that will stay afloat and attract qualified candidates? I really hope you don’t work in business.

[Anonymous]

^^no idea how democrats got involved in this!!

“Gives me the chance”

-PP

[Anonymous]

I need aftercare 2 days a week for about an hour. I found a music school that picks up from school for one of the days and trade off with other parents for the other days - I usually arrange 2 play dates, one where I pick up the kids and one where my kid gets picked up by the other kids parent. This requires flexibility and a lot of preplanning. If it were just a bit more work/more days I’d just pay for aftercare for the reliability. It’s expensive but so easy. Unless you want to spend a lot of time scrambling/planning for 5 days a week I think you’re stuck with it.