The province just kicked my kid out of daycare and yours is probably next
Dear Lucky Toronto Parents: In a city where finding after-school care is a blood sport, and making it across town during rush hour to spring your kids from the clink in time for 6 p.m. is a death match, the provincial Ministry of Education is here to make your lives even more difficult!
The ministry has (seemingly arbitrarily) starting enforcing a shortsighted section of the 2014 Child Care and Early Years Act that limits after-school recreational care for school-aged kids to a maximum of 3 days a week in any given program, with a pickup time of 5:30 p.m. instead of the current standard practice of 6 p.m. In Toronto, where almost no one is able to get a spot in a licensed daycare, recreational programs have long stepped in to fill the gap. Pretty much every after-school program that isn?t an official day care operates the same way?a walk-safe program from the school to the local karate studio/climbing gym etc, with parents squealing in at 5:57 p.m. to make pickup. Now the ministry has started seriously curtailing access to these programs, while giving precisely zero F?s to ensure licensed spots are simultaneously made available. This week in #FML, the Eye of Sauron zeroed in on Sprouts, Growing Bodies and Minds, the after-school program where my 6-year-old son learns to tap dance, bake lasagna and build robots. The ministry has given parents a week?a WEEK in a city where pregnant women put their babies on daycare waitlists before their first ultrasound, in a neighbourhoo...
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