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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Seriously where are you guys getting the idea I’m going to leave my daughter with random friends? And for an entire day at that! I wouldn’t even do that with friends I’ve known for decades. Is it from the one comment about looking for community friends early in this thread? That was because I read a thread about St Albans daycare and how they have a community and on the rare occasion if someone’s running late they can ask one of the parents to stay with their kid for like an hour. And I’ve already found other parents in the community who are likeminded in thinking that’s not crazy unreasonable every once in a while.

I’m having difficulty understanding why a daycare is necessary. AppleTree Columbia Heights for example (among others) has before and aftercare hours (within the same facility, it’s just a different classroom, not a major transition) that fits into my schedule allowing me to drop her off and pick her up on 6/7 days of the week, and one day of the week I’ll need help with pick up only. I won’t be working 2 weeks of the month on most months. There’s no daycare on weekends so I’ll need help on weekends regardless. And my daughter can go to her mom’s on weeks I have nights or I can find a regular night sitter. I’m seriously failing to understand why daycare is an absolute necessity and that I’m a poor parent bordering on child abuse for considering DCPS an option. My job offers significant flexibility in switching shifts with colleagues who have told me they very regularly do it, 3 months advance scheduling allowing me to plan and have days off when DCPS is off. Yes camps are expensive, and I definitely expect to be spending at least $10k, but that’s less than the $25k/year I’d spend on daycare, and you have 0 insight apart from my salary to wonder about why I might be concerned about cost (no insight into any debts, other family I might be supporting, any health related costs etc).

I guess the main reason I should be considering daycare is to avoid having her have to switch from school to camp in winter and summer break. And like I said I’m considering that, but it’s not clear to me that’s a compelling reason to definitely avoid DCPS - are all the other kids who go to DCPS and do camps traumatized?

Other PP have said to come back to the thread and give updates on what schools extend her an offer so I can rule out red flag ones (like Kipp, clearly) and that’s all I’m doing. I’m not coming back to re-evaluate if public school is possible for her, I just wanted to know about Kipp, and I won’t be enrolling her there. And I’m definitely not asking friends to watch her while I go work.[/quote]

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