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[quote=Anonymous]I don't want that kind of village.

What upsets me is that I feel like everything is actively working against me. For instance, my DD really wanted to do this robotics club after school. She begged and begged. Well it doesn't start until mid October and only runs until 4:30. I can make 4:30 work by taking annual leave daily, but what did the school think we'd do between the start of school and mid October? Since I hadn't heard anything, I enrolled the kids in childcare and it's for an entire semester. How is it that childcare places completely understand what dates they need to run, but school is so oblivious? School is just always out of touch. I guess robotics is just for kids with SAHMs?

I feel like school could take so much pressure off everyone if it ran for 8 hours a day and stopped all these random days off. More week long breaks, less random days. I can easily get a camp for a week off of school. Or somehow run 10 hours a day. Not extending teacher's workdays, but maybe staggering specials teachers? Kids apparently don't have time to each lunch, little to no recess time, and there's no time for things like music or languages, so maybe more time is what's needed.[/quote]

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