Anonymous wrote:Reported at tonight's meeting: if you make $100,000 or less then you will pay a little bit less than $500. If you make less than that You pay less, sliding all the way down to zero. I think the before care is an issue as a lot of non-white collar workers need to be at work before 8 AM.

You maybe exaggerating a little. Our Title 1 school around the corner doesn't open up until 8:15 and parents make it work.

Make noise - write the school's board of directors and cc Ward 4 Council members, FOCUS, members of the DCPCSB, Building Hope, and anyone else you can think of.

There's no reason that before care must be provided by guides - in most school it is lower paid aides who do it for precisely the reasons listed above.

It may not break even, but schools need to do this to accommodate all families, current and future.

Anonymous wrote:This would have been nice to announce before the lottery. I didn't include any schools that don't have access to beforecare, because my start time at work is 8am

This is true, but it's also a very common thing for schools in their first couple of years of operations to need to change policies (start and end times, before/aftercare, pickup and dropoff routines, PD calendars, etc) as they are 1) working out operational challenges; 2) figuring out the needs of the school community; and 3) grappling with space/building constraints. It's a pain, and it would really be better if it didn't happen, but it's something that parents at charters with temporary locations should bake into their planning process.

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Anonymous wrote:This would have been nice to announce before the lottery. I didn't include any schools that don't have access to beforecare, because my start time at work is 8am

And Im sure some parents currently enrolled would have played the lottery. The point is they said they were looking to attract more lower income kids next year so making a decision based on this year's numbers is short sighted. The temporary ED basically told some parents they could leave.

Sounds like a charming leader.

Anonymous wrote:This would have been nice to announce before the lottery. I didn't include any schools that don't have access to beforecare, because my start time at work is 8am

And Im sure some parents currently enrolled would have played the lottery. The point is they said they were looking to attract more lower income kids next year so making a decision based on this year's numbers is short sighted. The temporary ED basically told some parents they could leave.

This would have been nice to announce before the lottery. I didn't include any schools that don't have access to beforecare, because my start time at work is 8am

Anonymous wrote:Why did they choose no before care?Does seem to match their charter assertion of seeking to serve the underserved. Do the other Montesoris provide before care?

Their arguments is that only a few families use the service, and those that do tend to arrive close to 8am anyway. So they can't justify the cost that it places on the guides. Instead, the school would be better served to allow the guides that extra time to set up their classrooms, etc. Due to the space limitations of the current location, before care is in the classrooms.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did they choose no before care?Does seem to match their charter assertion of seeking to serve the underserved. Do the other Montesoris provide before care?

How?

Those at the lower end of income have less flexibility for when they need to be to work. It is told to them as opposed to professionals who have lots of flexibility with when they come and go.

If someone needs to be at work at 8AM, the only option is not to enroll at Breakthrough or to get a sitter who will take their child to school.
(Note - CentroNia does provide early care and bus transportation to some schools)

So it was a typo? Should say "Does not seem to match their charter..."

Yes

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Anonymous wrote:Why did they choose no before care?Does seem to match their charter assertion of seeking to serve the underserved. Do the other Montesoris provide before care?

How?

Those at the lower end of income have less flexibility for when they need to be to work. It is told to them as opposed to professionals who have lots of flexibility with when they come and go.

If someone needs to be at work at 8AM, the only option is not to enroll at Breakthrough or to get a sitter who will take their child to school.
(Note - CentroNia does provide early care and bus transportation to some schools)

So it was a typo? Should say "Does not seem to match their charter..."

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Anonymous wrote:Why did they choose no before care?Does seem to match their charter assertion of seeking to serve the underserved. Do the other Montesoris provide before care?

How?

Those at the lower end of income have less flexibility for when they need to be to work. It is told to them as opposed to professionals who have lots of flexibility with when they come and go.

If someone needs to be at work at 8AM, the only option is not to enroll at Breakthrough or to get a sitter who will take their child to school.
(Note - CentroNia does provide early care and bus transportation to some schools)

Anonymous wrote:Why did they choose no before care?Does seem to match their charter assertion of seeking to serve the underserved. Do the other Montesoris provide before care?

How?

Anonymous wrote:Why did they choose no before care?Does seem to match their charter assertion of seeking to serve the underserved. Do the other Montesoris provide before care?

Yes.

Why did they choose no before care?Does seem to match their charter assertion of seeking to serve the underserved. Do the other Montesoris provide before care?

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Anonymous wrote:$500? How does that compare to other schools? Lee? SS? $500 seems very high.

$500 def on higher end. Wow!!!

Curious what it is in the low end. At our DCPS it's about $200 per month on the high end. It seems like Breakthrough is trying to break through any notion of actually serving underserved children.

good one

Ours is $290 for aftercare.