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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, the Emergency Child Care Initiative is not available to all essential employees. It is available to health care workers and essential DC government employees. I am an essential DC government employee and I have no reason to think the essential employees covered under this Initiative are disproportionately less able to afford childcare than the average DC resident. We're not talking about grocery store employees and maintenance workers, we're talking about mostly salaried government employees and healthcare workers. That population is either able to afford childcare or already connected to subsidized childcare programs in the District.

Second, that initiative was intended to fill a childcare gap while we were in Phase 1 and daycare centers shut down. It is already being phased out as childcare facilities are re-opening and was not and will not be intended as a substitute for distance learning for school aged kids. It is temporary emergency daycare, not school. If it continues into next school year, school aged students will be expected to participate in distance learning. They cannot "opt out" and not participate in school at all.

Allowing any parent to opt out of distance learning and retain a lottery seat would benefit only those families that are enrolling their child in private school/daycare or have children young enough that they can essentially skip a year of schooling and catch up later. [/quote]

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