It's the same in every profession and job Magoo. My sis is a nurse
and she complains about the same sort of favoritism. Another is a
hairdresser and she says the boss just let one of the experienced
stylists go because her niece needed a job. Not fair and not right
but very much true.
Jo, I have known some great and wonderfully supporting parents.
But, in the last few years I taught full time, I noticed that more
and more, the schools were being regarded as babysitters. In
Ontario they are now going to run full day junior and senior
kindergartens. Parents will be able to drop off their three and
four year olds at 7:30 to be met by an EA. Then the teacher will
take over at nine and continue to 3:30 when the EA will again take
the kids and they can stay there until 5:30. Sort of a mixed
kindergarten/childcare system. I know a lot of parents really are
welcoming the idea as they will not have to pay day care costs and
it will be more convenient but I rather suspect this will even
more entrench in parent's minds that schools are babysitting
institutions.

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