Democrat presidential contender Kamala Harris wants to extend the school day to 10 hours by pumping tax dollars into after school programs and other “enrichment options.”

But some outspoken mothers are expressing skepticism about keeping kids in school until 6 p.m., while others are questioning whether the government’s involvement is necessary.

The Real, a daytime talk show similar to The View that features four minority women “going through varied life experiences,” discussed Harris’ vision for the longer school day on Tuesday, and it was clearly not a winning idea.

“I want to tell you about a new plan Kamala Harris wants to bring to us for the parents out there to hopefully ease the burden, right? She wants to extend the school hours now from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,” co-host Jeannie Mai said to immediate boos from the live audience.

“Let me tell you a little more. She wants to create funding that will bring about, like, after school activities and schedules that will allow you to accommodate having the kids till 6 and the teachers and everybody else who would participate, they’re doing it either volunteer, if they choose to, or for additional pay,” she said. “Nobody’s being forced to stay till 6.”

“Okay, wow,” co-host Tamera Mowry-Housley said.

“I just want to know, your kids at school until 6, how do you feel about that?” Mai said.

It was virtually unanimous from the audience: “No!” they shouted.

Mowry-Housley, a black actress who starred in Disney movies and shows with her twin sister Tia Mowry, questioned whether it was a good idea to detain kids at school for longer than necessary.

“I’m thinking about what they’re going to do,” she said. “Because my 7-year-old, he can only sit still for so long, and the thing about after school activities is that it’s different than the school, so he could do gardening, he could do chess, he could do soccer, arts and crafts, but I do like the idea that she wants to fund this, because after school activities, it is expensive though.

“Like, whoa,” Mowry-Housley said.

Mai and co-host Adrienne Houghton noted an expanded school day would benefit parents who work until 5 p.m. by covering the cost of after-school care, but co-host Loni Love questioned whether it’s fair to increase the burden on taxpayers.

“But why should I pay for y’all babysit?” Love, a stand-up comedian, interjected. “Because I’m already paying for education. As a single woman with no kids, I’m paying a lot, okay. So now you telling me now I got to pay for your after school care? What about me? What do I get?”

“And, the teachers still aren’t getting paid enough,” Houghton chimed in.

Love questioned whether teachers and school employees would want to participate.

“Teachers are overworked already. You say volunteer, but who wants to volunteer? You want to go home,” she said.

Love highlighted private, voluntary investment in local community after school programs as a better solution than government run extended school hours.

“I remember years ago in Compton, Garth Brooks opened up a center, in Compton, and it was after school,” she said. “That’s the kind of stuff I don’t mind seeing funded.”

“I don’t mind paying some, but you’re extending it, that’s a lot of money,” Love said. “I would rather fund it separately, with like Garth Brooks, or let me volunteer, that way I wouldn’t have to pay money.”

Love argued that instead of the government, private groups need to step up.

“We had the rec center in the projects, and at the rec center we had volunteers,” she said. “Mrs. French, I love her to this day, she was my Girl Scouts troop leader.

“That’s why y’all had these Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts, YMCA. That’s what those are meant for. It’s not necessarily putting more pressure on … teachers and parents. It takes a village … but make it make sense.”

The Real isn’t the only ones who seem skeptical of Harris’ 10-hour school day.

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The Week published an editorial last week that illustrates a troubling trend behind the proposal – a bill in the Senate to create a pilot program of 500 schools to test Harris’ theory that the longer school day will both reduce childcare costs for parents and boost the country’s productivity.

“Unfairly assumed is the wisdom of structuring – and, specifically, permitting the state to control the structuring of – ever more of children’s lives,”  The Week’s Bonnie Kristian wrote, pointing out that other Democrat presidential contenders have similar proposals.

“You don’t have to go full free-range parent to find this trend worrisome. Kids’ free time is already shrinking, being consumed by longer hours of instruction, after-school care, and other scheduled activities. Unstructured recess time is on the decline, contrary to pediatricians’ recommendation, and where recess persists, it is often hedged into inactivity by onerous rules and heavy homework loads,” Kristian wrote.

“And parents are increasingly subject to scrutiny, including from law enforcement, for statistically safe behavior that was considered perfectly normal a decade or two ago, like leaving a child in the car for five minutes while running into a store or letting them play at a park alone,” she argued.

“Making the school day 10 hours long is a huge jump down this road whose destination we frankly do not know.”