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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, most parents do not send their K students to aftercare. I would say 5-10% max of the after club are K students and most have an older sibling. It is just too much/too long for 5yr olds. And historically in our school, the kids going thru 6yrs of aftercare are not the brightest or well behaved. [/quote]

Oh good lord. OP, call KAH at your school and ask approximately how many K students they have and whether their activities are different. For your amusement, I suppose you could also ask whether 6 years of afterschool care makes children dumber and less well behaved than the children who spend those 2 hours at home with their mothers.

I expect this may be a class issue. I suppose at some upper class schools, it is uncommon for children to have 2 working parents so not many parents make use of aftercare. At our school, fully a quarter of the student body uses KAH, so there are lots of 2-working-professional families.

I'll be sending my kindergartener to KAH this fall from 3:30-5:00 and he is SO excited.[/quote]

I think he should be excited! I believe that the aftercare programs are even more fun for K.  I know my kids LOVED aftercare in K and 1st.  By the time they were in 3rd, they were playing afterschool sports and didn't attend.  But it was fantastic and the counselors pay extra attention to the little one. It was really a great option and I was sad to leave it when I then had to switch to afterschool sitter so that the kids could get to practices.  OP, I suspect your K will love it![/quote]

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