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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Some schools use aftercare as  way to earn a few more $s at the cost of working class families. [/quote]

Okay, now we are down to brass tacks, this has been the unstated assumption throughout this entire discussion.  If the schools are making "a few more $$s at the cost of working class families", how much are we talking here?  Can you point out to us where this information can be found?  From informal discussions I have had, these programs are run at cost.  That may be wrong.  Please tell us how that money is being made.

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Or, if I understand your post, I think you're asking that someone tell you how that money is being used, not made, right?  Because it's allegedly being made by charging more for aftercare than aftercare costs the school.  Is that what you're asking, how the school uses extra funds raised by bigger aftercare costs?[/quote]

That's another way to look at it.  The assumption in all of these comments is that the schools are somehow overcharging parents, and that it really hurts those who make too much to be subsidized, but not enough to be able to really afford it.  So probably those earning between $60-90,000 a year, say.  But that assumes there is some big savings over the program cost, which I have not heard about.  Want to see how that savings arises, and per your point, where it goes.[/quote]

I've been following this conversation and never felt like the assumption is schools are charging more than cost for the afterschool programs they're delivering.  The assumption I had (and assumed was a given) is that schools have choices about *which* afterschool programming/vendors/models they use, and some schools choose more expensive models.  Somewhere upthread someone did say that one school openly charges a bit more for the aftercare and uses the extra for other school costs, but I wouldn't know any details about that or if it's true.  I assumed thought hat mainly, just like lunch vendors, schools have choices and some question whether the more expeonsve model is the best model.[/quote]

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