What is the potential financial impact for working parents if split shifts are implemented?
A split shift schedule would result in working parents paying for additional daycare costs. Under a traditional schedule, a parent of an elementary school or middle school student may only need to pay for after school care. However, with a split shift, it is possible that a student could be done with his or her school day by noon, or not arrive at school until 1 p.m., and that a parent would need to pay for daycare for five or six hours daily. If a parent had to pay $30 daily for the more than 170 days of the school year, that pencils out to more than $5,000 yearly in daycare costs.
