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CUPE fights private daycare
Robert Cribb ,
Dale Brazao,
The Toronto Star (Canada), 29-Oct-2007
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Groves, nicknamed Fast Eddy by the
Australian media, has grown fabulously wealthy as his Australia-based ABC
Learning Centres experienced a meteoric rise during the past decade to
become the largest daycare operator in the world.
...The central complaint against the 41-year-old entrepreneur – that he
milks government child care subsidy programs for personal profit – is also
the source of his financial success.
ABC Learning Centres has aggressively expanded into jurisdictions where
governments provide generous payouts to offset child care costs. Tens of
millions of those public dollars have contributed to ABC profits, which rose
150 per cent last year alone to more than $70 million.
From Australia to New Zealand, the U.K. to the U.S., the formula has made
Groves one of Australia's richest people, wealthier even than Hollywood star
Nicole Kidman....Australian news
reports say about 40 per cent of ABC's revenue comes from government
subsidies.
Category = Economics, Politics |
Flexi-hours and longer maternity leave: A
triumph for feminism? Anything but!
Sue Reid, The Daily Mail (UK),
21-Nov-2007 |
For the past 30 years, generations of
children have been parted from their mothers and brought up in state
nurseries - with serious consequences (in Sweden).
Suicides are a rising problem among teenagers. Depression is widespread
among girls.
The results in secondary schools, once the envy of the world, have dropped
dismally low.
Official statistics show that the psychological well-being of young Swedes
has deteriorated faster than in 11 other Western countries during the past
two decades.
In 1970, the reading levels of ten year old Swedes were the best in the
world.
But today, they have slipped to 15th in global rankings.
Jonas Himmelstrand, an expert on special needs education, blames a social
policy that separates babies from their mothers.
He says children who are brought up at home are calmer and easier to teach.
Even as adults, those raised in nurseries have a more difficult time
concentrating.
Category = Behavior, Development |
Flexi-hours and longer maternity leave: A
triumph for feminism? Anything but!
Sue Reid, The Daily Mail (UK),
21-Nov-2007 |
Therese Murphy's experience of (Swedish)
state-run childcare makes her feel that the children themselves also suffer.
A trained nurse, she has helped out occasionally at nurseries. She says she
has seen babies handed over by their weeping mothers at the doors at 7am
before work.
Worse, she has seen toddlers screaming as their parents walk away.
"We were told to tell the mothers that their children stopped crying when
they left.
"But the reality is that some didn't stop crying for nearly three weeks,
when they gave up hope.
"For the child, a state nursery is nothing like home. The routine is fixed.
These are not relaxed and fun places to spend your childhood.
Category = Behavior, Quality |
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