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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Scrap the subsidies entirely. They’re harmful and fucking over the industry.

Stop subsiding private businesses who rate hike each year yet pass none of it into the resources, building, children, or educators.

And finally pay educators better, you want high quality education? You’re not getting it when your educators rarely stay more than a year into the industry and lack all deep long term institutional knowledge.

Not to mention we’re deeply understaffed as is, and you want to put more children in when we cannot meet the demand already existing, and no a free fucking tafe course is not getting educators into the industry.

This is policy made by people who don’t step foot in the class and have zero idea of the industry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

You seem familiar with this looking at the instance you run.

I'm keen to hear your thoughts on why these subsidies are harmful. What do you think is a better approach for pre-school aged childcare? Or do you not want it?

The state steralised me so I've no personal stake, by sister who's quite wealthy and very uh unradical feminist (more women as bank ceos type) seems very keen on this stuff for gender equality reasons given childcare often falls to mothers. Keen to hear the other side if you don't mind writing up your thoughts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Well, they'll be way too old for childcare by then though??