I think its one thing charging an additional couple dollars per day for full day care, but for before and after care, take it from those who have been in the game for years, very few parents will be prepared to pay the extra. Additionally, with the best will in the world, you aren't going to be able to work one on one with a struggling student when you have four others to attend to if you are going to provide an equal program to each. It's one thing setting them up with tasks, but you aren't going to be able to give the attention to one child enough to actually help them get over their struggles without neglecting the others....I don't mean that to be awful either, just that your attention will be more focused on one vs all of them. As someone else said too, kids won't be up to much post school day, depending on the child maybe they will sit down and do homework, depends on age too, but in all likelihood, they will want some good old fashioned fun and gross motor activities. That would be a lot of fun for the kids to have some sort of structured before and after school program, but none of that requires an ECE background, just good research skills and planning ahead of time, and doesn't justify a higher rate I don't believe. Also competing with other after school programs for rate will be tricky. These kids are with you 2-4 hours a day. Parents just want them to be happy and safe and I find it highly unlikely that paying more for homework help would make them pay more. School aged kids wish list for parents is not the same as an infant or preschooler spending 10 hours a day in your care.