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View submission: Roger Cook promises to make kindergarten full-time in State election push
Just wanting to give a teachers perspective on this:
As kindy isn't compulsory, it's also not funded by the DoE. Which means that unless the kindy is run as a private business, public schools need to pay for it out of the budget they've been allocated for everything else (wages, supplies, electricity bills). Unless this full time kindy scheme ALSO came with increased funding for public schools to match, you're just asking schools to stretch their meagre budget further so that parents can have free babysitting.
It's already insulting that the pursuit of education and building human beings is considered secondary to making sure Tommy isn't getting in the way of his parents earning potential. At the very least, if we're going to be treated like babysitters, at least give us the courtesy of resourcing us appropriately so we're not doing it out of our own pockets...
There's nothing here!