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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know of any charter that offered 6 weeks of camp plus school until 4, 4:15 before they stick your kid in aftercare.

Ours offered 2 weeks of camp in prior years but we had to pay for aftercare because we couldn't get to school by 3:30 (which would mean leeavinf work at 2:45), which is not a full days work because I cannot start at 6:30 am. Anyway what are you going to do this year since funding has been cut?

My work does not offer free back up care, nor does my husbands. I took the full 6 weeks of leave offered in DC (not 22 at the time)! It still doesn't explain how you did childcare until the youngest was almost 3!

Our costs involve childcare, food, stuff, and space. We don't spend a ton but it does still cost money. More than $6k a year for childcare for school age kid. Aftercare is $450 a month plus some winter beak camp, summer camp etc which on a daily basis is more than I used to pay for daycare.

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Sigh.  See my post at 9:33am for details of our childcare arrangements for before our kids went to school and what we're doing for camp this year.

Also, how old are your kids?  Because the right to up to 32 weeks of family and medical leave (minimum of 22 weeks for most people -- that is an uncomplicated vaginal birth, or 16 weeks if you adopt or are not the one who gave birth) is part of the District of Columbia Family and Medical Leave Act of 1990.  So unless your kids are now 25 (in which case I don't understand why your kids are still in charter schools) you did have that right, if you were eligible.  (Feds are not, in which case you get 12, not 6).[/quote]

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