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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because you get what you pay for. Mann is more than $500/month. Janney parents run the aftercare parents and thus keep overhead costs low. Also, Janney is able to tap into the AU student community and so can be more flexible in scaling up and down on a moment's notice. [/quote]

+1.

Janney is such an unusual situation. Besides being close to AU, I've noticed Janney is full of two-earner families where one parent works in academia or a think tank or something like that. That parent wants part-time aftercare (since those jobs are often flexible) and is also usually super-high-education and super invested in the quality of the aftercare program.[/quote]

Janey is not that unique, lot of schools in DC offer that flexibility. We are at Lafayette (But it is parent run) and have a lot of flexibility. Our previous school used Springboad for aftercare, also flexible. A friend of DC at Maury (run privately) do aftercare only twice/week.[/quote]

Lafayette is not parent run- It's a private business (CLS) that supplies aftercare to Murch and other schools as well. It allows only a few days a week, but not drop ins. You decide your year-long schedule up front.

Yes,[b] Janney is unique. [/b][/quote]

Yes, it's the proximity to American that makes Janney able to enroll any kid with a 1-2 week notice and provide drop-in care.  They have a pipeline of college students always at the ready (within walking distance).  It's a pretty unique situation.[/quote]

+1. The proximity means access to a very flexible, qualified workforce. The only other programs I know of with that kind of flexibility are not in DC and are also in college towns. [/quote]

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