Advocating for "free" (taxpayer funded) afterschool programs for bratz. Because if we end up with "free" afterschool programs and "free" daycare then any brat is in the care of adults until 7-8 p.m. on weekdays, correct? I'm positive the brats are just going to be thrilled with the idea of extended school, where the work and bullying continues. Some of those kids are out waiting for a school bus at 6 a.m. or earlier in the morning and that means they will be gone from home for over 12 hours every weekday.
And oh wow Marcia...we pay an extra $1000 a month in property taxes to fund this BS. Renters watch their rent increase by more than 25% annually for the last five years to fund this BS. More people are becoming homeless because they can't afford to pay their increased bills required to finance more bratsitting. Retired people are being forced out of the area because they can't afford an additional $12K increase in their bills.
Administration nightmare: We all know that once they open the doors to this bullshit that there is no way they are going to all this trouble to do this for 1-2 hours each day. And how many people do you know of who would be willing to work a job where they are expected to babysit brats for 1-2 hours a day only? Guarantee the gubermint would figure out a way to make this at least a 4-hour gig if not bloat it out to an 8-hour gig. And who is going to pay for the revolving door of employees and the background checks required to be around brats? They already overwork teachers, so making them work a second (or third) shift isn't going to happen unless you want to see an even higher turnover rate. And let's not forget about those daycare aged brats, they could probably shoehorn them into this too.
You aren't going to find many quality adults willing to volunteer (volunteer: unpaid labor) to do this bullshit. Adults are either working, looking for a job or not working. The ones not working aren't going to want to spend time commuting to a no-pay gig for a couple of hours a day and being stuck in bad traffic potentially both ways. I guess they could force those in college for teaching to do this as intern work but I suspect it would backfire and lots of prospective teachers would change majors. Plus, this assumes there is a college nearby.
I've seen a huge push in the media to try to guilt adults into volunteering for at least the last 10 years and lots of adults also push the idea that decent people volunteer. If you replace the word volunteer with unpaid labor it becomes amusing: decent people do unpaid labor! Welp, all adults I know of do unpaid labor: running errands, cooking, cleaning, yard work, etc. So, I guess by that logic any adult who does unpaid labor is a decent person. So, if someone asks you what kind of volunteering you do: I run errands, do yardwork, cook, clean, etc.
I see all of this as parunts not wanting to deal with their bratz and looking for "free" babysitting so that they only have to interact with said brats early in the morning and then late in the evening. And I'd bet the after-school programs would be expected to feed the brats dinner too. And it just wouldn't be fair if the after-school programs didn't offer transportation both from the school to the facility and then from the facility to the parunts home/apartments.
Don't be surprised if these same parunts whine and expect to have the after-school program open on the weekends too.
So, parunts want to only parunt on the weekends? Fine, hire a nanny or over enroll your brat in extracurriculars. If a bunch of parunts want a service then I guarantee you there is an entrepreneur willing to provide said service as long as they are being paid fairly. The government isn't the fail-safe backup for services that entrepreneurs figure out through due diligence it won't be a profitable pursuit and abandon.
Kids will always struggle because there will always be a decent percentage of regretful parunts, parunts who are overwhelmed by life and parunts who neglect/abuse their brats. If money solved the problem there wouldn't be so many maladjusted kids/adults with rich parents. And even if a kid manages to have parents who are terrific there is a very high chance the kid will still end up with issues, because most of us have issues.
The only positive thing that could result from this is the possibility that there will be more retirement communities that do everything they can to discourage any residents that have kids by voting against schools, etc. and keeping property taxes at a sane level.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kids-are-struggling-why-isn-t-congress-scaling-what-works-to-help-them/ar-AA1j3jrw?ocid=msedgntphdr&cvid=4368add113a044fdbdbe40a86aa9f8ba&ei=124