Mobile: Really dumb question re: school/daycare
I am embarrassed to ask this, honestly, but I am at a loss. I am thinking ahead quite a few years, and logistically I don't get it.
What do you do when your child is old enough for kindergarten/school? First of all, isnt' kindergarten half days? So what do your kids do the other half of the day and during the summers? For beyond kindergarten, what do they do from 3-5PM and over the summers?
Re: Really dumb question re: school/daycare
A lot of Kindergarden is full day these days. And schools offer before and after care. Or daycare pick up/drop off or have school bus stops in front of them.
We're not there yet, but have thought about it.
Kindergarten is full day here, but they offer child care for before/after too. DC has bus stop to pick kids up as another option. For summer time we'll likely have a p/t nanny, grandparents and there are a lot of day camps depending on the kids interests. Plus the DC we use opens up to age 12 for "summer camp" from June-August.
So we'll figure it out when the time comes, but as of now there seem to be a few options in our area.
Public schools offer full day PreK and K here. Many of the schools have before/after care that you pay for, or the local daycares will bus them to and fro for you and they can go to daycare for before/after care.
Many districts strapped for cash are going back to half days.