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[quote=Anonymous]9:15 is a little late.  Our elementary school in MD starts at 8:50 am and you can drop off as early as 8:30 (there has to be some time to accounts for buses getting there and unloading).

This may not help you if your job is far away but hopefully this means that school gets out a little later and if there is an enrichment activity after school it would end closer to 5pm rather than 4:30 pm.  For us, giving our kids a chance to have those extra enrichment activities has been the challenge, especially because aftercare is not offered at the school.  Both our kids wanted to do Mad Science, but we just couldn't commit to another day of a 4:30pm pickup ...we could only swing one of those early pickups a week.  This year the girls will have a math enrichment and the oldest will do Girls on the Run and I'm thankful we have jobs flexible enough to allow us to do this.

I know for me it was difficult to ever participate in after school activities growing up because both my parents worked full-time and had far commutes/not flexible hours.  Unless there was a late bus at school that could take me home after the activity, I couldn't do it.  I remember being in middle school and not being able to play in games because it would get me back too late for the bus and too early for my parents to pick me up.  My parents would not allow me to catch rides all the time if they were not in a position to reciprocate and my mom would not allow me to take public transportation by myself.  High school in the upper grades  was a little better because we started driving.

So anyway, I guess my point is that the bigger picture for me is being in a position that allows my kids to have fond memories of having fun with girl scouts, science projects, and running (building the independence, leadership, self-esteem, etc and helping with the skills/experiences that may not traditionally be found in school) and still having that downtime on the weekends to hang out with the neighborhood kids.  In my mind, finding a way for other people to also participate, be it by contributing to a scholarship fund, volunteering my time, helping with transportation etc, helps other parents also trying to juggle daily life be a part of these great programs too.[/quote]

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