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01/22/2026 05:37

Subject: Elementary drop off and working parents

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Anonymous wrote:My one staff works from home three days a week and her husband works from home two days a week. They dont work from home on same day. Problem solved.

Another women a single mom I work with our office is literally next door to townhomes. She literally lives like 100 feet from office. She walks kids to bus and at work a few seconds later, she then takes a 15 minute break around 3pm to go to bus stop outside office and walks kids home, sets up snacks and back at work. Her kids a bit older 8 and 10.

I had another single mom working for me with a young child when I worked in Bethesda who livedin Reston. Our office was literally next door to a preK to 8th grade Catholic school. She drove to work her daughter, she she drop off at school, she sometimes have lunch with her and did afterschool, she pick her up and drive home together.

My old town we had a nice retired lady who lived across from elementary school. She used to let parents drop off kids as early at 630am, she watch them, even could make breakfast and her house was like 50 feet school entrance at start of school she walk them across the street. She do it at end of day too if you wanted.

My wife ended up on bedrest with third kid for three months. I went to hire her but for two kids morning and night plus I had to bring kid there did not work. I found a nice retired German women on a low income who was a widow in local paper. I hired her to walk kids to school, pick up kids from school, go supermarket for wife and prepare breakfast and lunch and since she was only there 830am to 330 pm on school days easy for her and we provided meals for her too. She was like $600 a week cash. But for that price she did not do much else. And she brought her dog too. She was poorer than I though as we also let her take home leftovers for dinner. She was very happy getting three meals a day plus $600 a week cash for a job at 70. And I gave her $1,000 bonus when it ended. Was only three months but was nice to help. She literally just kept wife company while kids in school or read a book 3-4 hours a day.

But I dont see how it is works problem. My two sisters became teachers to avoid this problem. And a lot of nurses work other shifts to avoid this. Plus my old school alot of Dads who were Cops, Fireman, worked at Airport did drop up and pick up.

Not one person here is saying it's work's problem.

Plenty of us had this easily figured out when telework was allowed. Now many of us are banned from telework and work doesn't like the hours we're working to try to make it work.

Interesting re: your sisters. I’m a teacher and I certainly deal with this issue. My school starts earlier than my kids’ school and I’m required to stay after, so I need childcare on both ends of the school day. And I work a second job during the summer, so I still need to rely on camp openings. Many teachers are in the same position I am when it comes to childcare.