CEO claims the College daycare and teaching lab isn’t viable
March 27, 2008 - Posted in "Zero to Six"
The College’s Child Care Centre will close at the end of July.
The 45-space campus daycare centre in Kingston has operated for 30 years. The college says it’s trying to reign-in a deficit. The daycare was losing about $150,000 a year, for several years. A half dozen staff will either be laid off or reassigned and 45 children and their parents will have to find daycare somewhere else.
CEO Chris Whittaker stated ” It was deemed that it was no longer viable to continue.” For the full article, go to: http://www.ckwstv.com/news/regional-news/20080327-Daycare-Closes.htm
The on-campus college Early Childhood Centre makes it possible for students who have very young children, to attend school. The Centre demonstrates a standard of quality child care for early childhood educators. It is a community where young children come to play with their very first friends and where infants thrive from healthy attachments to their caregivers. Like any quality child care centre, it is a home-away-from home where young children grow. By definition, quality daycare is a viable service.
Viability means there is growth. Daycares provide children with the necessary environment and supports for growth and development. Evidence of viability is a happy, child with good self esteem.
If a need exists for quality daycare, society has no choice but to take responsibility for providing the service, whether it’s for-profit or non-profit. Children are going to become adults. We must provide our kids with safe happy places to grow. To secure the future of our planet we have to assume that child care is viable.
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