Another way that our society is failing.

How are parents,, especially when both must work to create a living wage cope with this.......
Why does the school day end 2 hours before the workday

And in some cases, without a better alternative, they leave their children unsupervised: 3 percent of elementary-school students and 19 percent of middle-school students look after themselves from 3 to 6 p.m. during the school week. On the whole, conflicting school and work schedules cost the U.S. economy $55 billion in lost productivity each year, in large part due to parents (mostly women) who scale back employment and the lost productivity when parents have to take off work during school closures.


We really need to start examining as a county and society as a whole, what is important to us, and what sort of world do we want to live in.