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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People prefer to have their kids as close to home as possible because it makes life easier, especially since there are no aftercare opportunities available in most neighborhoods other than APS extended day. When you move kids to more distant schools in a congested county, you are adding a significant round trip commute to the day in the race for a 6pm pickup. To the person who will helpfully point out that school is not childcare and kids can ride the bus, you are essentially telling people to just hire a part time nanny or quit their job if they can't handle the logistics, which is a "let them eat cake" kind of solution. [/quote]

We all make choices.  We all have our life situations to deal with.  
I'm ONE of those who has pointed out that school is not childcare and I continue to hold fast to that perspective.  Your argument of convenience or having to make different life choices doesn't sway me in the least.  There is nothing requiring APS to provide extended day services.  They are not required to make life convenient.  They are required to provide a free public education.  PERIOD.  [/quote]

DP.  Sure, let's take that approach.  Who do you think will be disproportionately burdened, the UMC family that can pay for alternative childcare, of the LMC/MC family struggling to get by as it is?  Do you really think you're making life better for disadvantaged students by making school harder for their families?[/quote]

And that's what it always comes back to, very conveniently: We ever-so- compassionate MC/UMC are concerned for the LMC/MC families who might be burdened.....after all the hardship and convenience for ourselves arguments are done.
Do you know the economic breakdown of extended day enrollees or who benefits more from extended day services?  I don't.  But I will bet the majority of them are not FRL-eligible families.

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of course they are not.  Extended day primarily serves the upper middle class two parent working family in arlington where at least one parent works 9-5.  It does not serve those who do shift type work.  Here is the breakdown as of last year

Number of Extended Day Families by Income Level
as of Sept. 30, 2018
Income Level After School Before School
 Below $8,000 64              37
 $8,001 - $12,000 202      120
 $12,001 - $16,000 208    99
 $16,001 - $20,000 127    58
 $20,001 - $26,000 131    70
 $26,001 - $32,000 81      34
 $32,001 - $38,000 50     41
 $38,001 - 46,000 68      43
 $46,001 - $55,000 39    22
 $55,001 - $65,000 53    29
 $65,001 - $88,240 108  47
 $88,241 & above 2054  904

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FY-2020-Budget-Questions-and-Responses-as-of-April-12-2019.pdf[/quote]

Based on that breakdown, it appears that over a third of the students in extended day qualify as low-income.[/quote]

Yeah and didn’t someone upthread say that the county average for FRL was about 30%? Seems like extended day serves many across the board.

DCUM posters who don’t use extended day are primarily wealthy stay at home moms. That they would have the gall to suggest it’s elimination is truly abhorrent. 
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I didn't review all the postings; but I don't recall it being recommended to eliminate it.  It was pointed out that APS isn't required to offer it and then someone went on about how inconvenient that would be, making people hire nannies and whatnot.[/quote]

You think a family living on $60k/year is going to hire a nanny?  No, what’s going to happen is that when the parent’s shift gets changed so the parent won’t be able to pick up the kid from extended day, and grandma who currently walks to the school to pick the kid up when the parents are in a bind doesn’t feel comfortable taking two buses to the school, the kid will just miss school that day because the parents don’t have a way to get the kid home.[/quote]
If they have Grandma around, then Grandma could meet the child at the bus stop instead of taking two buses to pick him/her up from extended day.  This is about kids who are not in the (real) walk zone to schools and can be bused to a different neighborhood school if necessary[/quote]

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