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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would very much like to have an after school option that runs later than activities restored at Deal, but I don't appreciate the accusatory language in the petition.

It seems much more to me like the program needed to be sacrificed as the result of hard choices in austere times. Perhaps, since most Deal families are not experiencing the same level of austerity in their personal budgets, we can come up with a private solution that will still cost each of us less than individually contracted supervision.[/quote]

While Deal does serve many wealthy families, I don't know that these are the ones using aftercare.  The Deal families I know personally who choose Aftercare are OOB families who don't feel comfortable with their kids home in less safe neighborhoods, or with their kids commuting on public transportation.  These families come from a range of economic circumstances.

A sliding scale seems like a reasonable compromise. [/quote]

IB parent here that has used Deal's aftercare.  The idea of having a sliding scale doesn't seem feasible when you have such a tiny % of students that even use aftercare.  We were using it to cover days when my kid didn't have an afterschool activity or sport, maybe 2-3 days per week.  The challenge is both funding and staffing for it.  If parents want to explore bringing in an aftercare provider that may be a way to go, but I just can't see how it would work financially with the small numbers of students we're talking about. And it sounds like Deal is exploring more robust afterschool activities that might help fill the gap.  I can say the aftercare offered was pretty lackluster and my kid complained about going. [/quote]

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