When my toddler’s day care started turning parents away at the door due to staffing shortages, I learned it was owned by private equity — which maximizes enrollment to squeeze profit out of childcare and now owns eight of the 11 largest US day care companies.
Tbh. childcare is state sponsored here in Germany and things are not going well either.
I’m assuming folks aren’t paying a mortgage’s worth of tuition each month though.
For non-americans, it is about 1 mortgage per kid in full time daycare (45 hours a week) per month. This is not an exaggeration.
Fair enough.
Careful about equating ‘bad’ in different context. One person pays 600+ euro/mo for bad service that may be entirely different from your bad service.
I’m happy to relay the news that swedish daggis(sp?) is supposed to still be very adequate in many places, as an example of state-run childcare efforts.
I’d be interested in seeing a comparison of user-fee pricing and qualifications of childcare workers and curricula, as well as the subjective quality opinion. Getting a common reference frame could really help here.