S/O - does your DCPS or Charter School provide a dedicated space for after-care?

[Anonymous]

If so, please name your school and after care provider (DCPS/Momies/Springboard/Innis, etc).

My sense is that most use the school's gym/multipurpose room and playgrounds. But happy to be corrected.

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

No dedicated space at our school -- there are too many kids in aftercare to make that possible. I like that they use the whole school though -- rotating through the rooms gives the kids some variety.

[Anonymous]

We have Springboard and it's a spare classroom. Plus cafeteria and playground time. 15 kids of various ages but mostly on the younger side. It's pretty meh but I'm hoping it will get a little better as they find time to decorate the room etc.

[Anonymous]

No. After care has never been allowed to use the building at all (and the rent DCPS charges is pretty high anyway IIRC). They do get to use the playground though, as that is open to the public after school.

[Anonymous]

Nope, our aftercare is out on the playground in good weather and in the gym/cafeteria/multipurpose space in bad weather. Key, PTA-run program.

[Anonymous]

Funny how most don't name the school as OP requested. Why? It's not like anyone can identify you based on what you say about aftercare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny how most don't name the school as OP requested. Why? It's not like anyone can identify you based on what you say about aftercare.

Thanks for noting this. I'm OP. I only asked so that if someone answers accurately for one school no one else needs to chime in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how most don't name the school as OP requested. Why? It's not like anyone can identify you based on what you say about aftercare.

Thanks for noting this. I'm OP. I only asked so that if someone answers accurately for one school no one else needs to chime in.

if fairness was really your concern then you should insist that charter only be located in Ward 3 for the next few years seeing as how they don't have any at all. But thats not really what you mean is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how most don't name the school as OP requested. Why? It's not like anyone can identify you based on what you say about aftercare.

Thanks for noting this. I'm OP. I only asked so that if someone answers accurately for one school no one else needs to chime in.

if fairness was really your concern then you should insist that charter only be located in Ward 3 for the next few years seeing as how they don't have any at all. But thats not really what you mean is it?

Um, I think you posted on the wrong thread. Thanks for the non sequitur.

[Anonymous]

Springboard at our DCPS uses classrooms, multipurpose room, and the playground. They can't use classrooms during the parent-teacher conference day.

[Anonymous]

At Murch they only used the playground. Both XDay and Language were based in church across the street. Not sure what is going on now though with the move to UDC, we used them for years but no more kids left at the school sadly.

[Anonymous]

At Eaton the program uses many areas in the school and the playground. It's its own program though, JEAP, not run through one of the various providers or anything. In PK the children were mostly in one of the PK classrooms or on the playground, in K this year they mostly use the area in front of the PK/K classes and the playground.

[Anonymous]

At Powell they use the classroom, multipurpose room and the atrium.

[Anonymous]

At Janney, they use the classrooms, cafeteria, gym, atrium and outdoors.

[Anonymous]

YY has in-house aftercare so uses the whole school - classrooms, multipurpose room, field, gardens, parking lot