I’m a bit unclear about the Thanksgiving part? Do your kids only go to school Monday?
This would probably be fine as long as there’s the budget for it. 100 extra hours would be a 4.8 percent raise for a normal work schedule. So probably more for the teachers.
I wonder if there is some kind of activity alternative, though maybe that would cost more. Like a before or after school program.
Sorry, I was already taking as a given that the kids were off the Friday after Thanksgiving, and was saying they get the three days prior to Thanksgiving off. But I did not word that clearly at all.
I run into other problems with before/after school programs do to my unique custody situation.
Prior to COVID, I was able to put the two kids in the charter school into an after-school program on a day-by-day basis, so on the days I needed to pick them up, I could do so after 5 PM. It DID cost more, but at least I was paying for each individual day (at a premium to the weekly rate) rather than having to pay a weekly rate and just wasting the money on the days they didn't go. That program was replaced during COVID with one that was an every day program, and since their mom didn't want to use it (or pay for it), I bit the bullet and just picked them up when I needed.
For my other son (with special needs), he's never had an after-school or before-school program that could be anything but an all-week program and thus was cost-prohibitive. But at least prior to this year, he was in a school much closer to me. So for afternoon pickups, I could easily just get over there and pick him up in <20 minutes door to door, and then go get the other two from their after-school program later. For this new school, where Mondays are "late start" days, because it's a middle school they don't even have any child care or other programs for Monday mornings.
I suppose it would be easiest if I just move to Austin and only have the kids for the summers.
