Ripeberry
22-02-2009, 05:59 PM
Don't know about your area, but around here (countryside) there are not enough children for the primary schools! My daughter's primary is only half-full, the next school down the road has only 20 kids!
The pre-school is hardly full and the after-school club has to taxi kids in for about 5 different schools just to get enough to run the sessions, but the parents don't want to pay anymore for the taxi's!
Hardly any childminders are full and it's just WHERE ARE THE KIDS?
But then you go 8 miles down the road and the schools are oversubscribed the childminders are turning people away and there is no room in the afterschool clubs.
My area is not very posh, lots of social housing, just happens to be in the countryside.
So my question is, the childminders who are always full do they live in cities or towns and the ones that are struggling is it because of our geography?
The pre-school is hardly full and the after-school club has to taxi kids in for about 5 different schools just to get enough to run the sessions, but the parents don't want to pay anymore for the taxi's!
Hardly any childminders are full and it's just WHERE ARE THE KIDS?
But then you go 8 miles down the road and the schools are oversubscribed the childminders are turning people away and there is no room in the afterschool clubs.
My area is not very posh, lots of social housing, just happens to be in the countryside.
So my question is, the childminders who are always full do they live in cities or towns and the ones that are struggling is it because of our geography?