{"id":58362,"date":"2023-07-17T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=58362"},"modified":"2023-07-17T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T22:11:12","slug":"daycare-transportation-disappearing-at-lee-county-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/07\/daycare-transportation-disappearing-at-lee-county-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Daycare transportation disappearing at Lee County schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A program that hundreds of families rely on to get their children to and from daycare will soon be gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Lee County schools told parents that after-school programs\u2019 transportation drop-offs will be gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lee-school-bus.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58363\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that kids who do not go home right after school and instead go to daycares will not be getting a ride on Lee County buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best guess? About 1,800 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s based on how many students took the bus to a daycare after school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County schools spokesperson Rob Spicker said that the district adopted the new after-school bus policy because the district doesn\u2019t have enough drivers, and as a result too many kids are getting to and from school late in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spicker said the issue was only going to get worse if the district did not address it, but parents say the \u201csolution\u201d is not a solution, and daycare operators agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe daycare itself, we\u2019re losing a lot of kids that have been here since they were babies,\u201d said Gabriela Rubio, Fantasy World Academy daycare secretary. \u201cIt\u2019s bonds that we\u2019ve created. It\u2019s people, like parents. We\u2019ve created a special bond with them, and seeing them just not be able to be here for those extra years, that they were last year, it\u2019s affecting us as a whole. It\u2019s affecting our company as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With many kids coming from Lee County schools, Rubio said that Fantasy World Academy is not sure what this might mean for the daycare\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The district says one solution it\u2019s offering to parents is a before and after school care program at each elementary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, at an extra cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A program that hundreds of families rely on to get their children to and from daycare will soon be gone. On Friday, Lee County schools told parents that after-school programs\u2019&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58364,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58362\/revisions\/58364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}