Before and After School Day Care

I am currently in the process of exploring a possible "before and after school program" with an eye toward eliminating a barrier for families to send their kids to school here. Part of our reality is that many families work outside of the community and need a place to drop their kids off before the start of their work day, as well as a place to send them after school until they can be picked up. With day care services provided in other places, some families find that the easiest solution is to enroll their kids in school in the same community they work. It is hard to fault them for doing so given the logistics of everything involved. Our only problem right now is that we don't know how many families/kids this affects or how much interest there is in this type of programming at Roland School.

If you would be interested in before and after school day-care (located at the school) we ask that you let us know. I will need to get a sense of numbers before any formal arrangement for a satellite program can be made. Early indication is that it would require a minimum of 11 kids (both before and after) in order for the program to be viable financially. We are also interested to know if anyone would re-consider where they send their kids to school if we were able to provide this service.

This will also be a topic for discussion on April 11th at the Home and School Meeting (5:00 pm). Please feel free to attend for an update and to share your thoughts.