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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nearly all of my students in an all lower income school have a parent or relative at home with them. A few of them who don’t go to neighbors. [/quote]

I’m sure this is true. Adults are at home in rich households and poor households. As always, it’s the middle class getting squeezed. And criticized on this board. [/quote]

That’s what it comes down to as always. In poor communities, an adult is always around. It might not be the most reliable adult, but someone is there. Grandma or aunt in a multi-generational or multi-family household, or even a teen or college age older child. If not in the household, auntie whoever from down the street or down the hall is home all day, so is cousin whatever who lives 2 streets away and doesn’t work, so the kids can go there while mom/dad work. In high income households, there could be a SAHP or - more likely in this area - two high earning parents who have always had extra child care, like a nanny for school age kids to handle the drop-offs and pick-ups and sick kid duty and those random days off school. Plus enough money to supplement DL with private tutoring, sports for socialization, etc.

The extremes on either end are completely unbothered by the endless DL. It’s the middle class who gets squeezed out, again. I live in a middle class area. My neighbors have two school age kids, dad is a mid-level fed government employee who can’t telework, and mom was a dental hygenist. I say “was” because DL essentially forced her out of her job. She left the workforce to take care of her school age kids, because full time care and decent distance learning support for 2 kids was far more expensive and also harder to find than infant and toddler day care. [/quote]

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