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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yu Ying & Mundo verde posters who qualified for reduced rate that are not FARMS: what do you have to make to qualify?[/quote]
YY reduced rate family: for a family of 4, the cutoff is $59k/year (for a family of 5, it's 69k; for a family of 3 it's $48k, going up & down @ basically $10k per person added/subtracted from  each family).[/quote]
Thanks for posting this.

So a family of four, two kids, both parents work full time, with a HHI of $70K/year is expected to pay over $400/mo per kid for aftercare. 
Clearly this shuts out many families from schools like YY and MV.[/quote]

I think both schools offer a small sibling discount, but yes. The cost of raising children in DC is part of why we only had one child.[/quote]
I guess it seems reasonable to me that parents making above (or just below) DC's median household income of $64 k don't get a discount.

I'll also add that because Fridays are half days, you can save $130/month if you're able to pick your kid up at 1 pm on those days. (I know it's not an option for everyone, but it has worked for our family.)

And yes, there's a sibling discount--the 2nd/3rd/etc child is only $340.[/quote]

THat's good that it makes sense to you and works for you.  There are a LOT of families where it is still unrealistically high, and there are families that were passionate about Mandarin (talking about YY only obviously) and beat the odds to get admitted, only to have to turn it down because of the aftercare costs were too much.  The YY school community just needs to figure out if that's acceptable, if there's anything that can be done about it, and what that might be.  But obviously that is an internal YY issue and no parent trying to figure out schools for next year can count on anything being different until it's offiically going to be different.[/quote]

A LOT of families turn down YY every year because of aftercare prices? Correct me if I'm wrong, but only about 10 or so families turned YY down. I find it hard to believe that all of them were both PASSIONATE about mandarin AND unable to come up with the extra $180 or so per month to afford the aftercare. Don't get me wrong, I'd like very much to see aftercare costs be reduced for middle-income families, but you are completely exaggerating.

Charter schools need to balance the needs of all different kinds of families on a much smaller budget than DCPS. Perhaps pursuing equal funding as mentioned up thread is one way to help cover costs.[/quote]

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