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15. Some schools do (or did) offer before and after school programs

Wed Oct 29, 2025, 08:16 AM

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free of charge to parents. Teacher's aides were usually paid to do that, and since they're underpaid, they welcomed a way to make a little more money. I don't know if they still do it, but it seemed to work well in the school system I'm familiar with. They sometimes paired it with tutoring for the kids who needed some extra help that parents were unable to give. Before school programs included breakfast.

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