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

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] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Any policy decision over 10 years into the future might as well not exist at all. There is no guarantee whatsoever anything will come of it. Just like most climate goals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a long time, but if t it's gonna take them that long to set up this social program that will last forever, so be it.