I’m not going to disparage anyone for body dysmorphia, that stuff hurts.

I feel ya. Hope is hard, but we also need something to aim for.

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Doesn’t sound ideal.

Moderated communities allow topics to stay on track and fit the theme of a community. It allows you to find different comms if you don’t agree with how one is being run.

By reducing it to tags, you risk topics getting flooded with irrelevant things or bad takes, meanwhile OPs get to ensure no one in the comment can argue against whatever bad take they might make.

Basically is makes the experience worse for every other user by cluttering feeds and promoting biased moderation.

Banner’d

Are you fucking kidding me? Evil people are publicly stating their planned intentions to harm people and you’re asking why we don’t ignore it to focus on fucking sunshine and rainbows?

Sticking your head in the sand will not protect trans people from one of the most influential policy makers in the US.

Yes that Bain Capital.

Childcare in Australia is subsidised by the government, so the childcare centres raise fees and every few years the government raises the subsidy so parents can afford it. Once it’s affordable the centres raise fees again, it’s a vicious cycle.

I read the meeting minutes from when they bought us out and it was all about how they struck gold with free government money. They didn’t give a shit about the children, just how much tax payer money they could take out of our country.

Needless to say the quality of care went down and it wasn’t high to start with, injuries and incidents went up, and I quit to join somewhere better.

Daycare is a multibillion dollar industry. The previous company I worked at here in Australia was owned by big an American private investment firm (Bain Capital).

My centres company owned about 70 centres under them, and their owners had many other childcare corporations they owned across the globe.

I work for a not for profit now and while they run 76 centres, they actually care about the children.

Thanks Blaze. It’s empty at the moment but I’ve got some ideas for posts to start making over the next few.

American suburbia.

In my country the government funds all 3 models for free for ages 3-5, albeit limited to a few days a week.

The service we provide is leagues above what state run centres are offering (and obviously for profits). A purely state run model is not the ideal as the state has a terrible understanding of education, focusing on metrics instead of each child’s needs.

I work for a not for profit. Our focus is on quality education and care, not profit seeking or getting parents back into the workforce.

It’s the period where the brain is doing the most development. You learn more in the first few years than at any other stage in life. As such we are able to set in motion a lifelong passion for creativity, exploration, and learning. Basic skills such as social interaction, picking up multiple languages, transferring or adapting prior knowledge to new situations, persisting through a challenging situation, etc. Not to say this can’t be taught later in life, but it’s so much easier at this age.

As an early childhood educator, I’m always wary of government attempts at this. Shame the article doesn’t mention any more.

Does it come with increased benefits for the overworked, underpaid educators or does it add more children into an already struggling sector?

What are the curriculum requirements/framework like?

Is it paying for profit centres to do it for free and get paid a set sum by the state or is it state run centres?

We’re not just a place to dump children while families work. It’s the most critical education period a child will ever go through.