>>>>OTOH, my junior high was on shifts. The morning shift (which was all the 7th grades and the 8th graders who were going to go to a high school for 9th grade) started at 7 and finished at noon.
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>>>Not much provision there for parents being at work
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>>Yeah, well, this was the late 60's when most moms were at home. Besides that, it was junior high (grades 7-9, ages roughly 12-15, though I was a lot younger), so in theory, these kids could be home on their own.
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>Oh well you all had maids back then anyway! :-)

Maybe you did. We sure didn't. To be exact, at one point in my childhood, we did have a woman named Margaret who came about once a week to clean house. Other than that, we never had any household help.

I, otoh, have had someone to clean my house most of my adult life. Once I realized that I could earn in an hour or so what it costs, there was no reason not to.

Tamar