[quote=Rhett][quote=bearishgurl]Am I missing something??[/quote]
Yeah – the days of 1/2 day kindergarten went away quite a few years ago. They are getting out of school at the same time with all the other students, and they have a lot of homework (another reason we went the private school route). There is no “DASH” program in San Diego Unified. What is available varies school by school. Up in UC, after care is generally provided by the SAY program and/or the YMCA.
I’m not sure why you are contorting yourself arguing some point that really isn’t that pertinent here, because in the past two years our daughter easily comes in the top ten percent in the amount of extra care that has been used at her school. Believe me, we use it, and we know very well what after care is like at our school and what it’s like at the various grade schools in our area.[/quote]
I believe that there is still both morning and afternoon kindergarten sessions in CVESD.
I’m not attempting to argue anything here. The OP stated that they didn’t want to send their kindergartener to his/her assigned school because it was dismissed too early for their convenience. I was attempting to drive home that the wheel was invented long ago to solve this problem economically in nearly every SD community (except rural areas) and it has worked for FT-worker parents for decades.
IIRC, Scarlett has posted here in the past that you guys were spending a fortune in private preschool and daycare and from her most recent posts, it doesn’t sound like you are getting your money’s worth.
The South Bay YMCA has an EXCELLENT afterschool program. And they service every single elementary school in the district. They even have a large, newish dedicated teen center to help middle-schoolers with homework which is walking distance from two middle schools. I’m not familiar with the SAY Program.
