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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two Rivers has regular half days. Every Wednesday. We looked at them for this current school year but when they told me about this at the open house, it was a no for me. There is an option for after care but if you aren't already paying for 5 days a week of aftercare, it costs extra on Wednesdays just for your kid to stay until the normal release time. This was insane to me. We do aftercare 2 days a week but the idea of paying for an extra day just to cover normal school hours makes no sense to me.

I get teachers need PD time but building it into the school week like that is such an FU to working parents. We are at a DCPS now and they usually tack PD days onto existing 3 day weekends (like we just had a 4 day weekend for MLK day because they made Friday a PD day). That is much easier to plan for IMO.[/quote]

Op here- this is exactly how I feel. Lamb honestly isn’t good enough to have me wreck my life so they can have extra half days. I don’t want to pay even more to Casa Lala either. [/quote]

Agreed. I honestly feel like charters do this intentionally because they know a lot of working class parents rely on school for childcare and will balk, so it's a way to artificially ensure they have a higher SES student base, which is easier for them. Sketchy for a taxpayer funded public school IMO.[/quote]

As someone who has worked in DC schools for decades, you sound insane. This is not a thing. [/quote]

Regular half days at charters that leave working parents scrambling for childcare is definitely a thing. Read the thread.[/quote]

Nobody is arguing about that. What is insane is arguing that schools do this to force out poor families. That’s a crazy thing to think. [/quote]

If you think that's crazy wait to you hear other ways charters cook the books to force out low SES students, like waiting until November after numbers have been solidified for the following year to kick kids out.[/quote]

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