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Reply to "If you and DH work late, how do you manage extracurricular activities?"
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[quote=Anonymous] Having two young adult daughters in the DC area one on the MOCO school district and one in Arlington, it also does not help working parents that the elementary schools start so late!! It would make a lot more sense to shift these students earlier in the morning to reduce time in before care, give more parents the chance to drop kids off at school on way to work and/or have older kids at home to see the younger ones safely out the door. Having kindergartens start effectively at 9:00 a.m. is just plain nuts!! In our area it is 8:00 a.m. and high school which starts at 9:00 a.m. Whatever decisions a working couple makes there will always be a tradeoff. I would say confidently that child care for two under age 5 and the basic mortgage for many homes easily runs $5,000 a month. That and other basic expenses really takes two incomes to carry for many educated families - outside the relam of the really, really high wage earners.[/quote]
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