How long do children come to and how long do they stay in a Fifth Dimension?
Children typically visit a Fifth Dimension on a drop in basis. However, in most public school Fifth Dimensions, children attend on a daily basis. Some children spend four to six hours per week of their after school time participating in the Fifth Dimension, while others may only come once a week for a few hours. Opportunities and constraints vary across locations, seasons, populations, and sites. Girls outnumber boys in some Fifth Dimensions, even where larger club setting activities are dominated by boys. At some locations, adults expect the children to participate regularly in the Fifth Dimension and arrange for them to do so, while at other sites, children are free to choose if and for how long to participate, with homework, basketball, reading or other activities as some of their alternatives. Many children enter the Fifth Dimension directly after school or homework sessions, and remain there until their parents or school transportation services take them home. It is not unusual to
