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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You haven't even started at this school yet.

Busting in and trying to change a plan that may well meet the needs of most of the parents is ... a little much.

Talk to the person in charge. Ask questions. Listen to the answers. Perhaps the things you want have been tried in the past and failed. Or perhaps the people in charge of the vendor will be willing to pursue changes.
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Agree with this entirely. As a parent volunteer who worked a lot on aftercare, there was nothing worse than a new person coming in and trashing the existing program without taking the time to ask why it is working and what others like about it. My experience has been that if you have an aftercare program that takes good care of your kids with caring staff, that is what you need most. I've seen some schools ditch a previous provider that was deemed unsatisfactory for things like inconvenient back office communication, only to end up with a worse provider who may have seemed better but had unsatisfactory care of the kids.

There's no harm in asking questions but the tone of OP's post comes across as entitled. Nothing works for everyone and so you figure out a plan to adjust. As others have said, there are some schools whose aftercare didn't have enough spots for all kids and so new parents would be placed on waitlists, having to figure out alternative arrangements. [/quote]

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