There were once so many children at Frisha Moore’s Elk Grove preschool that families filled up the waitlist. Now, one of her playgrounds and two classrooms sit empty because one key group of kids has stopped coming.
Dozens of families in recent years have opted not to enroll their 4-year-olds at Moore Learning Preschool & Child Care Center, she said. Instead, they’re putting their children in transitional kindergarten, California’s new public pre-kindergarten grade.
Even though she provides a full day of preschool, compared with transitional kindergarten that lasts only about 3.5 hours, Moore can’t compete: Public school is free. She hasn’t broken even in months and thinks about closing the preschool, “every single day.” That would remove 91 licensed child care spots from the county, including 20 for children under age 2, for whom child care options are particularly scarce.
Transitional kindergarten’s expansion is one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature educational achievements and a key part of his legacy on how California cares for its youngest residents.
Why is AP trying to spin this negatively?
Should you be able to pump your own gas? Experts in the gas industry say it is “too dangerous…”
So this was a couple of years ago I was in western Nebraska traveling up to deadwood south Dakota. Stopped at a gas station, I see a car with Oregon plates and the guy acting clueless as to what to do.
I get out and he asks me what he needs to do. I was sort of dumbfounded that this guy didn’t know how to pump gas and making a trip from oregon. I showed him.
A few months later I read it was required in Oregon for attendants to pump gas and people in general didn’t and that most of the public didn’t know how.
How did he make it to Nebraska without filling up at least once before that?
And now you understand how I was so baffled. It’s still a mystery to me. Maybe he had someone show him he just wasn’t comfortable doing it himself yet? Idk
May have unironically gotten lucky with finding the stations with attendants who pumped gas and having really good fuel efficiency. I once stopped at a station I believe in elk bend where the dude did it for me and my Truck can get from Vegas to blackjack on a single tank if I’m feeling stupid. Mind you old Toyotas are most certainly in possession of a machine spirit so it may vary.
I don’t think Colorado or Nebraska have any full service stations anymore
I don’t think any states outside the northwest do, maybe the Midwest or great planes if it’s piss cold enough but that would be the exception not the rule.
You can pump your own gas now in Oregon. They still have dedicated gas distributor specialists however.
That would be the news only if they could overcharged you for attendants to fill your fuel or get get robots to do it, or both.
Because it is a corporate media outlet. And like every corporate media outlet in existence ever, they will always side with capitalism.
P. S. Despite this somewhat charitable program by Newsom, he is a true Reagan democrat. And I will never, and I mean absolutely fucking never, vote for him as president.
Good. Fuck em. I was able to have my daughter do TK for free and it was phenomenal. Private preschool costs more than rent. Maybe they should try reducing their prices.
Good. Fuck em.
Literally my first thought as I was reading the post. Then I see this as the first comment.
I remember being appalled that my son’s daycare was $105/week (in the mid 90s)
public school is free
free at point of use. tax (rightfully) pays for it.
private daycare is a racket
kids under two
downsize and focus on that underserved area? thats what the fReE mArKeT wants
Good. I am so tired of people taking advantage of the critical needs of humanity and getting upset when we take the profits away from them.
Oh good, they can sell their businesses to the government at a loss and those can be folded into the public system. Some services are too critical to be privatized, and it’s about fucking time people remembered this. Not everything can be managed on a profit margin.
Do you want to see Elon lose his shit. If Democrats run on mass free public transportation he will. He despises it. He got hundreds of millions from blue cities in exchange for his hyper loop system that he’s done nothing with. Those cities should be demanding their money back. Dems need to run on this
Do preschools exist to care for children, or make money? You have to pick one or the other.
Oh is your business model garbage? Sucks for you
In my country kindergartens from 3 yo and up is free, and in some cities even daycares from 1 yo are heavily subsidized, yet private ones are still full and you need to book with year in advance paying non refundable deposits. Maybe she’s overcharging?
This is definitely something that should be socialized.
Boo fucking hoo.
I understand that it sucks to have your business ripped out from under you, in a way, by a public option, but people struggle to afford child care. This is necessary and good for average Americans.
BS story, but there are indeed issues. I’ve got a 2 and 3 year old myself, and speaking from experience, it’s a mess that’ll put me in the red until my 3yo is 5, eating into my savings.
As mentioned, private is still the primary option for kids under 4 but we even have a lovely local program that can start at 3 if you’re poor enough (and in CA, that’s around 100k/yr lol). The problem is the time. They’re like 3 hour programs, some full time that’s still only 6 hour. With two working parents with minimal family support, that’s still a non starter if they can’t stay past 3pm.
At least my private daycare is cheap-ish at the cost of religious brainwashing, and that hasn’t seemed to matter for a kid like mine. Standards still keep them from, y’know, beating kids and whatnot.
Well, womp womp I guess.
But also, am I the only one surprised, that Gavin Newsom of all people did this? The guy that had Steve Bannon on his podcast just to congratulate him on his strategy? The guy that he would definetly veto the idea of his own party to introduce a minor wealth tax?
Perhaps this is an incincere attempt at coasting of Mamdanis polulartiy? In any case, I will continue to despise the guy, because I refuse to believe that this decision was based on any real beliefs on his part.
Lemlefties, you got a political party together yet? Only 2.5 years left to go.
