Parents say they will work less and pull their children out of daycare when childcare centres put fees up to cope with $400 million of funding cuts.
And then we read this:
A Christchurch survey, released to the Sunday Star-Times by the New Zealand Educational Institute, is the first to show how the government's early childhood education (ECE) cuts will affect families. It found that 92.3 percent of creches set to lose funding will increase fees.
Could this possibly be the same NZEI which pulled this stunt earlier in the week?
Somehow, we don't place a lot of faith on surveys such as the one referred to above which emanate from organisations with a track record of skewing facts to suit their political agenda. The NZEI's display of organised rudeness towards Education Minister Anne Tolley earlier in the week seriously damaged its credibility in our opinion. We didn't feel the need to read further.
2 comments:
you would think by reading the Herald article that staying at home with your kids was a death wish!!!
My view is that many people in NZ see having children as a right a long time before they view it as a responsibility. Kids are expensive and with that in mind you need to be sure you can afford having them and be willing to make sacrifices to provide for them.
Must fly as I have to earn extra money before our third arrives!!!!
So you let ideology get in the way of the reality that some families are facing huh? How blinkered of you. As an Educator I would have thought you'd be glued to the opinions of parents who are dropping hours at their respective creches.
Man are you gonna be suprised when it bites you on the arse! Get over yr fucking union phobia and listen!
Ozy... what ignorant generalisations you make...
Remember the mean wage in this country? The percentage of income needed to cover the average mortgage? The fact that two incomes are pretty much essential to simply exist as a family?
"you would think by reading the Herald article that staying at home with your kids was a death wish!!!"
fuck you, arrogant wanker. Staying at home with the kids is a privilage only the robber-class can afford these days.
Get back on yr knees.
Santa.
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