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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]

OK, nosy, the deal is that my DH works 7:30-4 on his WFH days, and I have a flexible schedule that allows me to take time off in the afternoon and make it up later in the evening or even on the weekend. We actually still use aftercare several days a week, but our kid has activities twice a week that are easier to get to if we can bring her home and then whichever one of us is not working can take her. Sometimes we arrange it so neither of us are working and one will take her while the other makes dinner. Sometimes we both take her and DH and I hang out while she's at her activity and then we all go to dinner.

We make significantly less money by arranging our lives this way with my flexible job and his flex hours on WFH days, than we would if we both just took regular 9-5 or 9-6 jobs without flexibility. But we'd have to spend a significant portion of that extra income on childcare, plus we would not get to spend as much time with our kid or with each other, and stuff like meals and housework would be more stressful. So we accept this tradeoff, which works for us and our priorities.

But go right on judging. This is why I don't socialize with the people at school who always seem to be a little too focused on the details of other people's lives.[/quote]

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