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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate this for a host of reasons, not limited to:

- Totally devaluing the caregiving experience many (almost entirely women) bring to the childcare profession earned in their own families and communities. Like that knowledge and experience doesn't matter if you don't have at least an associates degree. Essentially eliminates a possible line of work for women who spend their younger years caregiving unless they have the money to get a degree.

- Particularly harmful for immigrant women, for whom this is a common line of employment and one where they are often valued for skills that will not be represented in that degree requirement, like being bilingual.

- People claim it will lead to higher salaries in the profession but it will also lead to fewer jobs, as many daycares are already paying astronomical rents and cannot afford to also pay higher salaries. So realistically it will mostly benefit the workers who already get higher salaries (because they already have these credentials -- a daycare worker with a degree in early childhood has ALWAYS made more money, this is not new) while eliminating jobs, *and childcare spots*, for everyone else. Instead of win-win-win, it's same-lose-lose. Net negative.[/quote]

+1 from someone who has many family members and colleagues who are caregivers and in caregiving professions who I love dearly.

This does NOT help them!

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