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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In response to some of these posts--

--I think DCPS aftercare used to be in non-Title I schools (eg Oyster) but it has been cut at those schools over the past few years. It has also been cut back in the Title I schools (eg this year my school had to bring in an outside provider to take over some grades). 
At the same time, a few years ago DCPC didn't make much effort to get anyone to pay, even middle class families. The budget comes from OSSE. I don't know the whole story there (why they fund it at all, whether it will be eliminated altogether--although that is my suspicion).

--As for fees of over $400/month, somehow many DPCS schools that are not Title I and run their own aftercare programs manage to charge quite a bit less than that, more like $230-$270 (eg Stoddert, Eaton, perhaps Janney--unfortunately there's no one place to see all their fees so I'm going by memory).

From what I've read on DCUM in the past, YY charges so much to subsidize its schoolday programs. That does not seem fair to the families who are being shut out. Seems like you will end up with a skewed student body--poor kids, wealthy kids, not much in between. (Although I'm not actually at YY or MV so I don't know if this is the case. But anecdotally, the families I know at those schools are all pretty well off.)[/quote]

Thank you, that's really helpful.  Further, unless I'm mistaken, the $230-270 is what the families paying full aftercare fees pay.  At my last 2 schools (one DCPS, one Charter), there was an income guideline (I think it was higher than FARMS but not totally sure) where parents paid much less than that, and some parents got it free.  Not totally sure about the free part, but definitely abotu sure some families paid even less than the $230-270.[/quote]

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