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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elementary school parents need to wake up and smell the coffee. I'm sure your child can suffer through an extra ten minutes of school. One of these days your kids won't be in elementary school anymore and you'll appreciate why many parents of teens feel so strongly about the change in times. No teenager should be walking to a bus or standing around in the dark waiting for a bus. I agree that 20 minutes was not optimal to help with the sleep issue, but if it gets kids off the streets in the dark then it's worth it. [/quote]

I have a KGer and I totally agree with this! And 10 extra minutes to relax at lunch of recess sounds pretty awesome to me.[/quote]

It sounds pretty awesome if you can afford both after-care AND before-care.  It's definitely tough for parents who aren't as wealthy.  It can be a pretty sizable financial burden.

We have KAH at my school and it's an extra $335/month for before care (on top of what we're already paying for after-care).  [/quote]

Before care at KAH is not that much more if you already pay aftercare.

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Yeah, it's $80 per month to add 5-day-a-week morning care if you are already paying for 5 days of afternoon care for KAH at my school.  Not to say that's insignificant, but it's not as bad as you make it sound.  I'll also be interested to see how many parents need to change their need for before care based on a 10 minute shift in start times.  I have a kid at a Tier 2 school, and we already needed before care because of the 9:15 start time.  The new proposal doesn't change anything for us, and I think that overall it is a good balance between needs of older and younger children.[/quote]

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