As a preschool provider I am at a loss to understand how the government obtained permission to give my preschool places for free to parent's and in return give me a capitation grant of 64.50
I also cannot understand why the grant was not payable directly to parent's and allow them their constitutional right to choose the preschool/education of their choice for their child/children. Parent's will be forced to avail of the free place provider and this in turn will close down preschools who do not provide or cannot provide due to the criteria and will eventually lead to less preschool places in the community. And quality will definately reduce as schools will be unable to replace resources or worn and torn equipment etc etc.
After all the government paid the early childhood supplement directly to parent's so why not replace it with this ecce scheme.
This scheme will most certainly close my business, my livelihood and no doubt I will join the already lengthy dole queues. I will not be participating in this scheme, which is dictatorship at it's best. I had a viable business before this scheme, I could replace my equipment and resources etc when needed, I provided quality preschool to the people that mattered and they were the people who CHOSE to avail of my service.
This whole scheme is unconstitutional and ethically wrong.
Pity ye didn't step in and tell the bankers and builders what to charge!!!!!!
carole Barrett
Posted on 19 Jun 2009 12:40 am
As a preschool provider I am at a loss to understand how the government obtained permission to give my preschool places for free to parent's and in return give me a capitation grant of 64.50
I also cannot understand why the grant was not payable directly to parent's and allow them their constitutional right to choose the preschool/education of their choice for their child/children. Parent's will be forced to avail of the free place provider and this in turn will close down preschools who do not provide or cannot provide due to the criteria and will eventually lead to less preschool places in the community. And quality will definately reduce as schools will be unable to replace resources or worn and torn equipment etc etc.
After all the government paid the early childhood supplement directly to parent's so why not replace it with this ecce scheme.
This scheme will most certainly close my business, my livelihood and no doubt I will join the already lengthy dole queues. I will not be participating in this scheme, which is dictatorship at it's best. I had a viable business before this scheme, I could replace my equipment and resources etc when needed, I provided quality preschool to the people that mattered and they were the people who CHOSE to avail of my service.
This whole scheme is unconstitutional and ethically wrong.
Pity ye didn't step in and tell the bankers and builders what to charge!!!!!!