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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you to the Mayor for putting the focus on where it should be - hiring more childcare workers.

[i]Urban Sprouts' classrooms are filled with plants and string lights and student art. Soothing videos – of kids dancing and birds chirping and rain falling – are projected on the walls, the overhead lights dimmed. Every day, children enjoy farm-to-table, home-cooked meals in a café-style dining area.

[u]Two of the rooms are dark and empty. Despite concerted efforts, Urban Sprouts has failed to fill the positions needed to staff its infant classrooms.[/u][/i]

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/education/2022/06/09/pandemic-babies-now-toddlers-delayed-development-heres-why/9660318002/[/quote]

Hiring is brutal these days. With the ECE equity fund, teacher salaries are going up $6 per hour. At my center that takes them past 30/hr with lots of time off, health care, retirement…and very, very few takers. It’s draining work, day in and day out. [/quote]

Understandable. Little kids aren't the easiest and that was before you had to walk into the door knowing every single one of your charges is unvaccinated with waves of variants every season that you can't account for. [/quote]

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