New Aftercare Provider at Lafayette

[Anonymous]

You all should reach out to the Lafayette aftercare program directly, they will likely want to know about your concerns so they can improve. Just a hunch!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me very happy with our school with its homegrown aftercare and principal who a is hands off because it runs smoothly.

Sadly, this is what Lafayette had with Principal Main and LAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me very happy with our school with its homegrown aftercare and principal who a is hands off because it runs smoothly.

Sadly, this is what Lafayette had with Principal Main and LAP.

Even more sad is that LAP didn't evolve and grow with the school population to meet the needs of the school community.

[Anonymous]

Look at CCPC

[Anonymous]

CCPC is much smaller and has a far warmer "feel". However, there is a good chance that they are at capacity.

[Anonymous]

Curious, is there a parent board with this new organization as there was with LAP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me very happy with our school with its homegrown aftercare and principal who a is hands off because it runs smoothly.

Sadly, this is what Lafayette had with Principal Main and LAP.

Please stop with this BS. we bought at house less than two blocks from Lafayette a few years ago and the only reason we did not enroll our kids at Lafayette but left them at another DCPS elementary school was the fact that there was no space in the beloved aftercare you are talking about (and the private at the church nearby was also full). we had friends who bought in the past two years and their kids were in the 200s in the waitlist for the aftercare. they have a spot now (we are at Deal now). aftercare does not exist to allow lazy moms to take the fourth yoga class of the day, as some people seem to believe. all the people I know are single working parents or couple where both people work, aftercare is a necessity when school ends at 3.15 and both parents need to work until 6 or later. if the current aftercare needs improvement, let's improve it but please stop going back at how fantastic was the one before because the fact that it left tens or hundreds of kids out is pretty important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious, is there a parent board with this new organization as there was with LAP?

No. Is there a parent board with Springboard or any of the other after care organizations around town?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me very happy with our school with its homegrown aftercare and principal who a is hands off because it runs smoothly.

Sadly, this is what Lafayette had with Principal Main and LAP.

Please stop with this BS. we bought at house less than two blocks from Lafayette a few years ago and the only reason we did not enroll our kids at Lafayette but left them at another DCPS elementary school was the fact that there was no space in the beloved aftercare you are talking about (and the private at the church nearby was also full). we had friends who bought in the past two years and their kids were in the 200s in the waitlist for the aftercare. they have a spot now (we are at Deal now). aftercare does not exist to allow lazy moms to take the fourth yoga class of the day, as some people seem to believe. all the people I know are single working parents or couple where both people work, aftercare is a necessity when school ends at 3.15 and both parents need to work until 6 or later. if the current aftercare needs improvement, let's improve it but please stop going back at how fantastic was the one before because the fact that it left tens or hundreds of kids out is pretty important.

+1000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me very happy with our school with its homegrown aftercare and principal who a is hands off because it runs smoothly.

Sadly, this is what Lafayette had with Principal Main and LAP.

Please stop with this BS. we bought at house less than two blocks from Lafayette a few years ago and the only reason we did not enroll our kids at Lafayette but left them at another DCPS elementary school was the fact that there was no space in the beloved aftercare you are talking about (and the private at the church nearby was also full). we had friends who bought in the past two years and their kids were in the 200s in the waitlist for the aftercare. they have a spot now (we are at Deal now). aftercare does not exist to allow lazy moms to take the fourth yoga class of the day, as some people seem to believe. all the people I know are single working parents or couple where both people work, aftercare is a necessity when school ends at 3.15 and both parents need to work until 6 or later. if the current aftercare needs improvement, let's improve it but please stop going back at how fantastic was the one before because the fact that it left tens or hundreds of kids out is pretty important.

Your point about the old aftercare is fine, but your unnecessary flaming of the mommy wars is extremely lame. Who are you to judge others' work/non-work and their care needs?

[Anonymous]

The PP is not judging work/non-work. He/she is saying that aftercare availability is essential for many Lafayette families, and that it is not acceptable for the school to be as aftercare space-constrained as it has been for the past several years.

[Anonymous]

We had a spot with aftercare last year, and it was fine, but folks who think it was enormously special and can't get over change are just fanning flames of divisiveness - something we really don't need in this day and age. I think it made a LOT of sense to bring in a provider that could scale to serve a much larger portion of the community. While it's not perfect, we need to give them a little time to get settled and wrap their arms around things. And then make some polite suggestions for improvements. Leave the combative attitude at the office or save it for your spouse. If it doesn't work for your family, find another option - at least you have options this year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me very happy with our school with its homegrown aftercare and principal who a is hands off because it runs smoothly.

Sadly, this is what Lafayette had with Principal Main and LAP.

Please stop with this BS. we bought at house less than two blocks from Lafayette a few years ago and the only reason we did not enroll our kids at Lafayette but left them at another DCPS elementary school was the fact that there was no space in the beloved aftercare you are talking about (and the private at the church nearby was also full). we had friends who bought in the past two years and their kids were in the 200s in the waitlist for the aftercare. they have a spot now (we are at Deal now). aftercare does not exist to allow lazy moms to take the fourth yoga class of the day, as some people seem to believe. all the people I know are single working parents or couple where both people work, aftercare is a necessity when school ends at 3.15 and both parents need to work until 6 or later. if the current aftercare needs improvement, let's improve it but please stop going back at how fantastic was the one before because the fact that it left tens or hundreds of kids out is pretty important.

What exactly is BS? LAP was absolutely homegrown aftercare and the prior Principal was hands off. Sorry you are still butt hurt after all of these years but YOUR opinion does not make fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me very happy with our school with its homegrown aftercare and principal who a is hands off because it runs smoothly.

Sadly, this is what Lafayette had with Principal Main and LAP.

Please stop with this BS. we bought at house less than two blocks from Lafayette a few years ago and the only reason we did not enroll our kids at Lafayette but left them at another DCPS elementary school was the fact that there was no space in the beloved aftercare you are talking about (and the private at the church nearby was also full). we had friends who bought in the past two years and their kids were in the 200s in the waitlist for the aftercare. they have a spot now (we are at Deal now). aftercare does not exist to allow lazy moms to take the fourth yoga class of the day, as some people seem to believe. all the people I know are single working parents or couple where both people work, aftercare is a necessity when school ends at 3.15 and both parents need to work until 6 or later. if the current aftercare needs improvement, let's improve it but please stop going back at how fantastic was the one before because the fact that it left tens or hundreds of kids out is pretty important.

What exactly is BS? LAP was absolutely homegrown aftercare and the prior Principal was hands off. Sorry you are still butt hurt after all of these years but YOUR opinion does not make fact.

This is the kind of crappy attitude why LAP ultimately failed as the aftercare provider at Lafayette. It was exclusive because it refused to serve the school community and didn't grow even as enrollment started to skyrocket. Ultimately it doomed itself because of the demand of the school community and refusal to be inclusive. That the prior principal stayed hands off only adds to its failure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me very happy with our school with its homegrown aftercare and principal who a is hands off because it runs smoothly.

Sadly, this is what Lafayette had with Principal Main and LAP.

Please stop with this BS. we bought at house less than two blocks from Lafayette a few years ago and the only reason we did not enroll our kids at Lafayette but left them at another DCPS elementary school was the fact that there was no space in the beloved aftercare you are talking about (and the private at the church nearby was also full). we had friends who bought in the past two years and their kids were in the 200s in the waitlist for the aftercare. they have a spot now (we are at Deal now). aftercare does not exist to allow lazy moms to take the fourth yoga class of the day, as some people seem to believe. all the people I know are single working parents or couple where both people work, aftercare is a necessity when school ends at 3.15 and both parents need to work until 6 or later. if the current aftercare needs improvement, let's improve it but please stop going back at how fantastic was the one before because the fact that it left tens or hundreds of kids out is pretty important.

What exactly is BS? LAP was absolutely homegrown aftercare and the prior Principal was hands off. Sorry you are still butt hurt after all of these years but YOUR opinion does not make fact.

a fact is that hundreds of kids, including mine, never had the opportunity to enjoy the homegrown aftercare because said aftercare was unable to serve them. whatever aftercare Lafayette has, it should serve its kids, not just selected few.