Peach County organizations started offering Monday child-care programs after the school system gave students Mondays off. Now, the Peach County Boys & Girls Club's program has been canceled.
Monday program started out as a response to parent's concern about the four-day school week, but quickly became a financial burden.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Byron and Fort Valley extended Monday's hours to include the morning and afternoon, when children would have been at school.
The program started August 10th, but only ran for four weeks.
The centers in Peach County sit empty on Mondays now because of lack of attendance.
It costed the organization about $250 a day to offer the extended hours. With the $10 fee charged each child to participate, each club needed about twenty-five kids to break even.
Attendance averaged about 20 kids per site.
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