Reply #16: So it sounds like

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2-3 hours of that time is transportation and waiting for school to start.

That's not that unusual. If it bothers you a lot, is there anyway you can take your child and pick her up? If you do that, of course, that will save her a couple of hours at school a day. Otherwise...

My fourth grader walks to school with two other friends. They take off at 7:40, get to school around 7:55 (they walk slowly, it really isn't that far) and the kids are let into the classroom at 8:10. Then she goes to the YMCA after school program on campus after school gets out at 3:20 and I pick her up anytime between 4:30 and 6:30 (depending on my work day).

So it doesn't sound that unusual to me, but maybe that's just me.