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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would anyone owe you a check? I'm not paying for your childcare.[/quote]

Except you usually do pay for childcare for all public school children. It's just that right now you are still paying that money but OP and people like her are not receiving the benefit.

Why not just cut her a check?[/quote]

No, our tax money pays for an education.  Its traditionally been in person and the child care is a bonus but since its no longer in person OP and others need to readjust their budget for afford child care, like they did when the kids were little.  Surprise, the government is no longer taking care of your kids every day and you need to.  Its called parenting.  Be an adult and take care of you kids or pay someone.[/quote]

Expecting someone to be able to pivot on a dime and adapt their budget to pay for full time childcare for elementary school students- something that has been reliably provided by the state and taken for granted as part of the social fabric of our nation for decades- is extremely unreasonable. Maybe OP waited to have children until she had saved up enough to help get hervthrough the daycare years or maybe she opted to move to a more expensive home in a better school district to benefit her kids once the daycare payments were done. Her no longer having several thousand dollars a month of disposable income with little notice to devote to childcare costs that she reasonably believed were behind her does not make her an irresponsible adult or parent.[/quote]

+1000

As a parent who very carefully saved and planned to make sure my kid would have good quality full time care until school started, but does not have the means to continue to provide that care now that my child is in school, I whole heartedly agree. Most families operate on much thinner margins. You can whine about it if you want, but if only wealthy people had kids, that wouldn't work out particularly well for anyone either.[/quote]

If you had the means and no longer, it means you are overspending in other areas such as housing, travel and other living expenses and you need to cut back.  Many of us probably live comfortably on much less than you do but its abotu the choices we made.[/quote]

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