The changing employment nature around schools

[NewBroom]

Schools are in the news these days with the striking secretaries and caretakers.

Whatever about that, one of the most striking changes I've noted in recent years is the explosion in cars parked outside rural primary schools. Where if you passed previously during the school day, you'd see a half dozen teachers cars parked up at most. Now there are multiples of cars parked up, you'd think the parents were waiting outside to collect but no, the cars are empty... they below to the burgeoning number of SNAs and ancillary staff. And to nearby childcare facilities and creches.

Women were told they should go out and work in the 1990s, for their own benefit and the economy which they did. Whereas before a family could hope to purchase a house and raise a family on one income, we became dependent on two incomes to fund & run a household. When children come along - hey big surprise they need child care and other women are employed to mind them, so that the mothers can work. To pay the child care. It's bizarre, I used to meet a local teacher on the road regular, rushing dangerously in her car to get into school after dropping her children to private childcare. And then later see the multiple cars parked up, all mostly belonging to women working as assistants in same school.

This is the older circular economy, a whole circular industry that feeds itself - the snake eating itself. Couples are no better off, children are ill served in their young and formative years. So to whose benefit exactly is all this effort and misery? Who's paying for all this work?

And when did we ever sign up to this rat run lifestyle?

[Dubit10]

We didn't sign up we just followed the model the US started under Reagan and it's been a disaster for the family unit ever since.