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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with the early start time for elementary kids is the early finish time.  [b]Right now a lot of dual working families can stagger their schedules to make the current times work.[/b]  Without a significant increase in slots for after school SACC, option 1 isn’t viable.

The opposite is true for option 2.  Without a significant increase in before-care SACC spots, it simply doesn’t work for a lot of working parents.

Then again, FCPS doesn’t give a shit about working parents, they probably won’t start now. [/quote]

So if they (ES) parents can make the current times work, I fail to see how an extra 30 min later (Option 2) would be so devastating. They also are now saying the early schedule won’t work (Option1). Sorry, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.[/quote]

Not everyone has the luxury to have 1 parent cover before and the other parent cover after. Single parents for one, but also where one or both of the parents travels a lot and/or has little flexibility.  My job requires me to be in the office by 9 am at the latest. 30 min later would significantly more challenging for me to make that, especially when my spouse is on special assignment or out of town. [/quote]

NP. Their point was that the elementary schedule is already a joke, moving it back 30 minutes continues to make it a joke, the same as it has always been.

My child’s school begins at 9:15, how do people make that work? Exactly the same as how people will have to make 9:45 work of it passes. 1) get into SACC in the morning, 2) get into those morning daycare vans or 3) hire a babysitter or get a family member to watch your kid & get them to school.

Single parents have a difficult life, but that’s true whether the school begins at 7 or 8 or 9. What does that have to do with this schedule? They have 1 adult instead of 2, life is always going to be more difficult regardless of the schedule.

A dual working household where one or both parents travel a lot of have little flexibility -> how do you get your kid to a 9:15 school now? Do you work from home everyday? How do you get to your office by 9 if your child’s school begins at 9:15? [/quote]

Dp.. there are really long wait-lists for both before and after care.  Like much longer than when my dc number 1 who is now doing fine with the middle school schedule was in sacc.  For dc number 1 we got on sacc wait list as soon as we could register and had sacc for the first day of kindergarten, for dc 2 we have at least a two year wait list, maybe longer...

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