Five days with no school.
“My head was in the clouds,” said the 27-year old mother, who works five days a week at McDonald’s. “I was thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, what am I going to do?’”
Days off from school create a perennial scramble for working parents. Even when parents plan in advance and have their school calendars sync’ed to their Outlook accounts or penned onto refrigerator calendars, any disruption to complicated family schedules pose a logistical and financial challenge.