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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work at an ES that dismisses at 2:25 (Loudoun). The amount of students being picked up at that time by a parent (vs going to aftercare) has probably quadrupled since pre Covid. All those parents are then “working” with their young ES kids at home and no childcare for the remaining 3+ hours of their workday. Watch all the parents come here to defend it.[/quote]

That's a different matter. My school dismisses at 3:30. Some people get in 8 hours of work by starting at 7 AM. Some people work in schools (my kid's best friend's mom BOOKS it from her workplace to our school). Some people have flex schedules (my husband is a professor, and if he's not teaching at that specific time, the cliche is "you can choose to work any 80 hours you want). I know a lot of parents who pick up their kids, and almost none of them take their kids back home to keep working, they all either have a SAHP or some specific work arrangement.

I didn't have school aged kids before covid, but I suspect the real change in aftercare demand has at least as much to do with the increase in flexible schedules and decrease in commuting time due to telework/remote work. If I were working my same schedule fully in office, I'd definitely need aftercare due to spending 2 hours on metro and the train, not because of my actual work hours.

There you go. There's your defense. Totally different than the question in the OP. [/quote]

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