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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two Rivers has regular half days. Every Wednesday. We looked at them for this current school year but when they told me about this at the open house, it was a no for me. There is an option for after care but if you aren't already paying for 5 days a week of aftercare, it costs extra on Wednesdays just for your kid to stay until the normal release time. This was insane to me. We do aftercare 2 days a week but the idea of paying for an extra day just to cover normal school hours makes no sense to me.

I get teachers need PD time but building it into the school week like that is such an FU to working parents. We are at a DCPS now and they usually tack PD days onto existing 3 day weekends (like we just had a 4 day weekend for MLK day because they made Friday a PD day). That is much easier to plan for IMO.[/quote]

Op here- this is exactly how I feel. Lamb honestly isn’t good enough to have me wreck my life so they can have extra half days. I don’t want to pay even more to Casa Lala either. [/quote]

Agreed. I honestly feel like charters do this intentionally because they know a lot of working class parents rely on school for childcare and will balk, so it's a way to artificially ensure they have a higher SES student base, which is easier for them. Sketchy for a taxpayer funded public school IMO.[/quote]

As someone who has worked in DC schools for decades, you sound insane. This is not a thing. [/quote]

Regular half days at charters that leave working parents scrambling for childcare is definitely a thing. Read the thread.[/quote]

Nobody is arguing about that. What is insane is arguing that schools do this to force out poor families. That’s a crazy thing to think. [/quote]

Op here. I’m not poor but I’m not rich and they’re forcing me out with these policies. So it’s working, regardless of whatever the reasoning.[/quote]

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