Market place program

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Oh jeez Trudy, I KNOW! Isn't it maddening? When I did my ECE course in the early/mid 90s, I was already a mother to a toddler girl. So I guess you could say I was a little more seasoned and possibly a realist. One day we had a class where the debate began about 'for profit' vs government funded 'not for profit' daycares. The ECE program I was in definitely had government funded daycares at the forefront of their agenda. I would be quite surprised if this wasn't the case in most ECE programs - no doubt there's some funding and political issue going on there. At any rate, the general view prescribed to us was that 'for profit is bad'. One should never make a profit off the backs of children.....yeah, that's ACTUALLY how it was worded! Of course, being a teenier bit more confrontational in my younger years, I had my hand up in a flash and said "Why not?" I thought they'd string me up right there. I explained that it's a business like any other. Why shouldn't we be compensated appropriately for providing a needed service and doing it well? Of course almost all the girls in there were starry eyed and fresh out of high school, so their minds were easily molded. It's almost like brainwashing - like it's a bad thing to even consider making some money from working with children. I had forgotten about that day until you put up your post....lol....thank s for the memory

And for the record, both of my sons went to a wonderful, for profit daycare facility. I found their daycare to be far superior to the nonprofits I worked in through college and after.