Ok, getting a better sense of it. I think the intention is good but where does it say this is optional and they don't have to stay there? What am I missing?
Where does it say this is mandatory, and they're not allowed to leave for those 3 hours even if the parents come pick them up early?
I'm going off of what I've seen in person, as I've already mentioned multiple times, this is a program that ALREADY EXISTS for private schools and other well-funded schools that have the means to make this work.
The mandate is about providing an extra 3 hours, and as such, the teachers are the ones who are accountable for managing those students' time there. There are also faculty and other staff that will be there to manage pick-ups, and make sure that students are not just being let off because they don't want to be there, but to their parents, as that's how daycare would have worked in any case. There's been plenty of times in daycare when a child doesn't want to be there anymore, and will ask the parents to come pick them up early, and the daycare will let them go. They're not going to be like, "Oh, he still has 43 minutes, sorry", and tell the parents to come back later.
This isn't some sort of scheme to keep torturing your kids in doing this.
The parts you can complain about is how they will actually fund this properly, and make sure that it's going to work fro that perspective.
The money from those private schools aren't just going to the resources for the extracurriculars, but a lot of it is going to higher wages that the faculty who work there are getting. All of these aspects need to be offset properly in order for the program to be successful.
The idea of providing this itself is fantastic, but the practicality of trying to make it work from a money standpoint, I'm still a bit hesitant on how they will fully make this work without putting too much of the onness on low-income parents who are already struggling to try and pay for daycare, which would then render this solution null, since it wouldn't be solving the problem, but just actually doing forced daycare from the money side of things even if they can't afford it. If you want to have a gripe with this bill, this will be the part that you are more than able to discuss since it's also my main issue with this bill since we are specifically talking about low-income communities here.
