Schools will be open through the evening.

[DawnCt1]

If school breakfast, school all day, after school activities, etc aren't enough, Sen. John Kerry will support having schools open through the evening for working parents. I say that isn't fair. What about the parents who work nights and weekends. I think that schools should be open 24/7 and start when the child reaches his first birthday. We don't have a farming culture anymore, so kids to remain in school all summer with two weeks allowed during the parents' vacation from work. I hope that they plan an evening meal too.

 

[tonyswife]

Why wait until they're one year though? What we should do is just hand over our kids to the government upon birth. The government is much better at solving all parenting issues than we could ever hope to be anyway. Visitation for sperm/egg donors would be set by the schools as well, we want to be fair.

 

[stinkerbelle]

Originally posted by DawnCt1
If school breakfast, school all day, after school activities, etc aren't enough, Sen. John Kerry will support having schools open through the evening for working parents. I say that isn't fair. What about the parents who work nights and weekends. I think that schools should be open 24/7 and start when the child reaches his first birthday. We don't have a farming culture anymore, so kids to remain in school all summer with two weeks allowed during the parents' vacation from work. I hope that they plan an evening meal too.

I don't get it...Kerry's idea or yours. schools open 24/7?

 

[ladycollector]

Schools are getting ridiculous already, we don't need this too. LOL

Glad some people think like I do too.

 

[DawnCt1]

Originally posted by stinkerbelle
I don't get it...Kerry's idea or yours. schools open 24/7?

I am only expanding on Kerry's idea. He is only going to have a government program to keep them open until 6 pm. It doesn't go "far" enough. It isn't fair.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

wow. do you have a source for that?

Our public school here just cut hours to 9:30am to 2:30pm and they are no longer offering Pre-K at all.

 

[debster812]

I'd be interested in seeing a source on this too.

Fortunatly our schools are still keeping Pre-K, but there is NO care after 3 in elementary unless you are paying for it.

 

[DawnCt1]

Originally posted by Toby'sFriend
wow. do you have a source for that?

Our public school here just cut hours to 9:30am to 2:30pm and they are no longer offering Pre-K at all.

I heard Kerry's campaign speech last night. I am sorry to hear that the government won't get their hands on your child until he is five years old.

 

[CEDmom]

This wouldn't be anything new for our district they already offer before care starting at 7:30 and after care until 6:30 for a nominal fee.

 

[arminnie]

Originally posted by Toby'sFriend
wow. do you have a source for that?

It's in an Associated Press article out of Columbus, Ohio.

Kerry After School Proposal - AP

 

[DawnCt1]

Originally posted by debster812
I'd be interested in seeing a source on this too.

Fortunatly our schools are still keeping Pre-K, but there is NO care after 3 in elementary unless you are paying for it.

You mean you have to PAY to have your own children cared for?? Seems like an outrageous thought to me.

 

[caitycaity]

ummmmm......

*coughs loudly*

you know the current administration does something really similar to this currently right? it' spart of nclb and it's called the the 21st century community learning centers program. and actually, it was around before bush too, he just decided to reauthorize it under nclb. kerry's proposal is just a proposed expansion of this program.

i don't really see how this is a bad thing, and apparently neither does the current administration since they already fund the damn thing.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

oh, it is an after school care program that lasts until 6pm.

From the way I read it, I thought 3rd graders were going to be learning algebra at 9:00pm.

 

[DawnCt1]

Originally posted by caitycaity

i don't really see how this is a bad thing, and apparently neither does the current administration since they already fund the damn thing.

Anything that relieves taxpayers of their hard earned money is always a good thing. More entitlements, expansion of programs, etc. Afterall, the government knows best how to spend our money. One of my complaints with the Bush administration happens to be expansion and addition of entitlements, so I am not being inconsistant.

 

[caitycaity]

Originally posted by DawnCt1
so I am not being inconsistant.

didn't say you were. i'm just trying to put your shock and awe into a little perspective.

 

[TinkBoo&ElliesMum]

Originally posted by DawnCt1
You mean you have to PAY to have your own children cared for?? Seems like an outrageous thought to me.

Yeah child care is such an unusual thing

Our schools offer it here too - before and after school care until 6:30. Not that big of a deal.

 

[gymnasticsmom68]

Anything that relieves taxpayers of their hard earned money is always a good thing. More entitlements, expansion of programs, etc.

Aren't the parents, who have their kids staying after school, working while the kids are there, and wouldn't that make them taxpayers?

 

[debster812]

Originally posted by DawnCt1
You mean you have to PAY to have your own children cared for?? Seems like an outrageous thought to me.

Yep I do. From 3pm to 6pm. As I work in a town that is 40 minutes away from the town we live in. Would you like to volunteer to come to MA every day and watch DS until DH or I can get home?

Sorry you think being a parent who has to work outside the home is outrageous, it is my life, and I feel lucky that DS is in as good a program as he is.

All done here.

Debbie

 

[faithinkarma]

They do this where I come from also. Kids stay in the building for supervised daycare. There is homework help available, and other activities. Most parents prefer to have their kids there than to have them move from the school to a separate facility for the hours between school closing and the end of the parents' work day. I really don't see what the big deal is.

 

[gymnasticsmom68]

BTW they have this in my school district too. Why is this so foreign to you Dawn?