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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see why it's not realistic that the city council provide additional funding to make up for whatever the lost amount of funding that occurs due to this from the federal gov't or the bill that passed today or whatever is the issue here. And I know $ isn't infinite but they can and should take from something else since our children having a safe place after school is more important than MOST other things.[/quote]
They won’t do the paperwork. What will happen is upper middle class parents will shrug and pay (it’s cheaper than the alternatives), lower income people will get in, and a lot of people who can barely bother to get their kids to school won’t do the paperwork and their kids won’t have daycare. This is the fate of every means tested program ever.

Council could do this, but should only do it with income limits.  All UMC families should have to pay. The current situation where some UMC families pay and others don’t doesn’t seem feasible to me with DC’s finances.[/quote]

You can’t just give free aftercare to all students at Title 1 schools.  [/quote]

In a perfect world this would work, but means testing like this tends to disproportionately harm people who should get in free because they don’t do the paperwork[/quote]

They will do it though if they have to pay.   Giving free stuff to everyone does not encourage any action.

Plus lots of middle class families freeloading off the program.[/quote][/quote]

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