^ Disagree.
In the fundamental sense - no, a school is not somewhere to 'dump' your kid while you go to work. Education and personal development is the paramount concern. However, having a child go to a school that has the facility to look after your child for a longer period does assist parents with keeping down a full time job. Granted, these extra services do come at a cost but a parent willing to pay for these services so they can go to work is a good thing - if this facility was not available, said parents wouldn't be able to spend as much time in work and our economy would suffer.
Like i said earlier, to use this service costs me a lot of money but its worth it, my son gets a good start in life, is well fed and the services he has access to are amazing.
For people who can afford to pay these fees, the option of extended care times are there, however for people in less well paid jobs who cant afford it they either have to quit their jobs or take a massive cut in hours (and pay) the money the government would have to spend on providing full daycare facilities for children would surely outweigh the cost of the level of unemployment we have now.
I'm not saying we should offer every parent extended care, just those who require it (ones who have jobs and want to keep them and thus keep paying in to the countries pot and not live of my taxes)
Ive gone of the main subject here a little bit i understand...
sorry.
In the fundamental sense - no, a school is not somewhere to 'dump' your kid while you go to work. Education and personal development is the paramount concern. However, having a child go to a school that has the facility to look after your child for a longer period does assist parents with keeping down a full time job. Granted, these extra services do come at a cost but a parent willing to pay for these services so they can go to work is a good thing - if this facility was not available, said parents wouldn't be able to spend as much time in work and our economy would suffer.
Like i said earlier, to use this service costs me a lot of money but its worth it, my son gets a good start in life, is well fed and the services he has access to are amazing.
For people who can afford to pay these fees, the option of extended care times are there, however for people in less well paid jobs who cant afford it they either have to quit their jobs or take a massive cut in hours (and pay) the money the government would have to spend on providing full daycare facilities for children would surely outweigh the cost of the level of unemployment we have now.
I'm not saying we should offer every parent extended care, just those who require it (ones who have jobs and want to keep them and thus keep paying in to the countries pot and not live of my taxes)
Ive gone of the main subject here a little bit i understand...
sorry.