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Reply to "Petition to Save Aftercare Program at Alice Deal iddle School"
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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry but 80 kids is not "a handful" or "a smattering" or a tiny percentage. That's three classrooms full of kids whose parents are probably working hard to provide for their families and don't want them wandering the streets of DC. Gee, guess when a lot of kids start with drugs and sex? In between making themselves a PB&J and doing homework at home, alone. What parents pay for aftercare is just a portion of what it costs to provide, but many many families cannot afford the average $15/hour for professional childcare that is the going rate in DC. That's the grocery & bus money. I had a single dad and was a latchkey kid myself from WAY too young. And you don't need to work in a newsroom to know what comes up (and how old the kids are) every single day when you search the wires for the word "missing." It's sickening. Cutting the aftercare budget was an extremely irresponsible decision. [/quote]
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