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View submission: Roger Cook promises to make kindergarten full-time in State election push
Kindy isn’t actually funded by the department at all because it’s non compulsory. Schools fund it directly. Surely if the suggestion is 5 days a week they’ll have to fund them. Some low socio economic areas already operate at a deficit.
A lot of private schools have the option of 3 or 5 days, maybe that’s something they could do.
Comment by countrymouse73 at 03/02/2025 at 22:56 UTC
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That’s interesting. Well it’s not going to solve childcare issues because people who work a full day will be needing to pay for BSC and ASC to wrap around the kindy day anyway. When my kids were at kindy I ended up working the days they weren’t at kindy because it was easier to juggle a daycare day with work hours than school pick up/drop off.