Working parents across the city are scrambling more than usual to arrange child care this year in that gap between the end of summer camp and the start of the school year. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report.

It's the last days for perfecting swimming strokes, playing indoor hockey, building robots and leaning dance moves.

Summer school and camp programs across the city are ending, but public school doesn't start until September 9, leaving working parents in the lurch.

"I really believe that camp should be until school starts," said one parent. "At least after Labor Day. Camp should end after Labor Day."

"Until maybe after Labor Day," said another. "That would be great."

The teachers' union contract says school cannot begin until after Labor Day, which falls late this year. Then, once school starts, there's a series of religious holidays - Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah and a new school holiday, the Muslim Eid al-Adha. It all adds up to a September of only 12 school days, as many weekdays off as they will have on.

"I still have to work and they have a million and one days out of school," said one parent. "I don't understand why they have all these days out of school."

That parent has arranged for her kids to leave their home in Harlem and travel to the Bronx for the next few weeks to spend the days, and some nights, with their grandmother.

At the Goddard Riverside Center on West 93rd Street, other working parents said they've also enlisted family members. One mom said her young children will be watched by her 16-year-old daughter now that Goddard's summer camp is ending.

"She's going to take them to the park and to the pool," the mother said.

In Little Neck, Queens, the Samuel Field Y is one of several camp providers that's decided to offer a "post-camp" option.

"We have a large amount of working parents in our area, and once camp is over, they still need to work and they still need child care," said the camp's director.

Still, at $95 a day, all the extra days can really add up.

Not all city kids have an extended vacation, though. School has already started at many charter schools, including the 34 Success Academies, which also stay open on the Muslim and Jewish holidays.