新西兰国家党, 你真行!!! 让我们这些有孩子工薪阶级的

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Parents face $80 a week fees shockBy Elizabeth Binning5:30 AM Wednesday Dec 1, 2010
                                                

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The parents of tens of thousands of preschoolers can expect to start paying more for early childhood care next year - in some cases up to $80 a week for each child.
The increases are expected to kick in from February once the Government removes the top two funding bands for around 2000 centres which have more than 80 per cent of fully qualified staff.
A new survey, conducted by the Labour Party and released exclusively to the Herald, shows most centres facing the cuts plan to compensate by making staff redundant, passing costs on to parents or a combination of both.
The survey, which questioned 435 of the centres facing cuts, found 89 per cent planned to pass costs on to parents by increasing fees.
Those increases varied from $2 to $80 per child per week. In Auckland just over half of the centres indicated fees were likely to increase by $15 to $30, 14 per cent were $40 to $50 and 5 per cent were planning on increases of more than $50 a week.
Nearly 60 per cent of the centres expect participation to drop as an effect of the funding cuts. Maori, Pasifika and children from low-income families are expected to be particularly affected.

Labour has used the findings to attack the National Government saying its ECE funding cuts, which were announced in this year's Budget, will only end up hurting children during the most important learning period of their life. National has hit back saying it is spending $1.3 billion a year on early childhood education and centres should be finding ways to cover the costs themselves - not passing them on to parents, many of whom are already struggling.
Labour leader Phil Goff said Prime Minister John Key should be "ashamed" that participation rates will drop as a direct result of the Government's funding cuts.
Labour's Early Childhood Education spokeswoman Sue Moroney said nearly 40 per cent of centres plan on increasing fees and reducing the number of qualified staff, meaning families will have to pay more for a lesser quality service.
"The Government's budget cuts are delivering the worst of both worlds to New Zealand families," she said.
"The reality is that cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out of the early childhood education budget was only ever going to end in disaster. National cannot continue to ignore the evidence."
However, Education Minister Anne Tolley said the taxpayer spent an annual average of $7653 on each child that was in early childhood care.
"That's a lot of money and we are spending $1.3 billion every year and times are tough, so we have had to make some changes."
Despite that Ms Tolley said she had given centres a 2.4 per cent increase in funding to recognise cost increases and compensated new subsidises to accommodate the GST increase.
"They have had eight months to prepare for this and so I would be extremely disappointed if they increased fees for parents."
Ms Tolley urged them to recognise that parents were already facing economic pressures and instead take a good look at their own budgets.
"That's what the Government is having to do, that's what parents are having to do, so there's no reason why these centres shouldn't do the same."
NZ Childcare Association chief executive Nancy Bell said she was particularly worried about the loss of qualified staff from the sector and the predicted decline in participation.
The inequalities created amongst parents who could afford to pay and those who couldn't was another major concern.
"We know the Government is concerned about getting those children that are not participating in the door but we are not sure what the net effects of those initiatives will be."
POLICY CHANGE
*The Government will in February remove the top two funding bands for around 2000 centres which have more than 80 per cent of fully qualified staff.
THE RESULT?
*89 per cent of 435 centres facing cuts planned to increase fees.
*Increases were planned from $2 to $80 per child a week.
*In Auckland just over half of the centres indicated fees were likely to increase by between $15 and $30, 14 per cent were between $40 and $50 and 5 per cent were planning increases of more than $50 a week.
*Nearly 60 per cent of the centres expect participation to drop as a flow-on effect of the funding cuts.
*Nearly half of centres (49 per cent) will be forced to reduce the number of qualified staff.

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大致意思就是政府对幼儿园的基金补助会减少, 所以幼儿园会涨价, 一周可能会要多80元. 这里的幼儿园, 可都是华人和洋人, 因为大家要上班. 现在, 这不是鼓励大家学习毛毛, 全不要上班, 就在家看孩子算了????

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只有5% 的幼儿园会涨 $50 以上

半数的只会涨$15 -$30

我觉得这可能也开始划分幼儿园等级

贵的就有钱人去呗，便宜的就领福利的人去呗

那就看你舍得把孩子放在哪个等级里了

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不只是涨价的问题, 60%的幼儿园还会减少老师. 真不明白, 孩子的教育问题, 国家党会这么对待. 那以后, 就只能是富人更富, 穷人更穷了......

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是啊, 当初也是支持国家党的, 觉得他们会鼓励那些毛毛出去上班, 少拿福利. 结果, 毛毛的福利他们到是不敢动. 动是都是有孩子的家庭, 单亲, 幼儿园, 还有学校老师的资金.  

毛毛他们本来就不在乎孩子的教育, 有钱的那些人的孩子, 都是送私利学校. 受苦的就是那些工薪阶级的家的孩子.

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John key 自己结扎了，所以他才不会考虑家里有上幼儿园小孩的问题。呵呵呵

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他就算有孩子, 也不在乎, 儿子都上KINGS COLLEGE. 就是PHIL GOFF太弱, 如果HELEN姐还在的话, 估计下次JOHN就要滚蛋了.

我女儿幼儿园和我家周围的邻居, 都只是生一个孩子, 最多两个. 很少三个以上的. 大家都觉得养孩子太贵了. 就那些毛毛, 一生就半打. 生下来, 又不管. 这样下去, 过个10年20年的, 这国家就是覆天盖地的毛毛了.

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当初真的不明白为什么这么多人选national ! National的观点就是给富人用的，可怜我们工薪了。。。希望他们赶紧下去。他们上了台，没干什么大事儿，就是让老百姓口袋里的钱越来越少了。

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$50.00 is not a small amount. but if both parents are full time working. we have no choice but only pay for the increase amount. my concern is centres might decrease qualified teachers.
ai....everything is more expensive more. only wage not increase!!!!!!!!!!!

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我觉得国家党真得是抄中间这部分的家，搞得连Summer School都没有了。

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还是我同事说的对，羊毛出在羊身上，什么降税之类的都是幌子，实际上付出的远远多于以前
下次坚决抵制国党

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对, 就只敢抄中间这部分. 没种抄岛毛, 是不是怕岛毛造反, 去抢他们有钱人的家.

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是已经定下来了的嘛？？还是要在国会里面讨论先？？？

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涨这么多阿。让不让人活了。

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下次什么时候选举啊，把国家党选掉

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每三年一次, 快了. ....................

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大家把国家党踢走~TMD~ 什么都减~JOHN KEY他骗了大家一票了~····

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下次也不选他们了


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国家党出台这个政策，的确让我们工薪阶层的这些有孩子上幼儿园的家长难过。。。
但是呢。。我不知道这样分析对不对。。。
当年工党把国家的钱都发给大家了，大家乐了。可是国库也亏空了。当国家党上台的时候，国库亏空，外债压得国家直不起腰。那怎么办？继续和工党那样，借外债，继续散钱？如果那样下去，新西兰就会成为下一个冰岛或爱尔兰。新闻说世界对新西兰的外债数量，准备对新西兰信用度降级。那真的是悲哀。
我上次大选选的是工党。但是从工党如今所作的事情看，很让人失望。除了攻击博出位之外，什么都不会做。而国家党做事情又太过着急，有点把中层阶级必得太紧。也对他们失望。
就拿奥克兰中心的环状铁路来说。工党的议员，威逼国家党政府给钱修，改良交通，但是需要20亿。本来国债累累，钱又从何来？工党会玩舆论，而国家党却只能认挨。说实话，像这样的事情，既然你奥克兰市长和交通长这么厉害，那就市长自己找钱啊？像中国办亚运，广州自己出钱比国家出的多。那奥克兰可以做到吗？从这些事情可以看出工党的“阴险“。也可以看出国家党的“愚笨“。
不知道我这样理解对不对。
所以我现在对两大党都失望了。明年大选谁都不选。。但是小党更没有几个真的好的为国家和人民着想的。所以我都想放弃选举权了。

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我们一直是选工党的,
那明年的3岁20小时免费那个制度是怎么改的呢?希望HOME BASE CARE的20小时免费(3岁,4岁)别改,我是打算送孩子去HOME  BASE CARE了

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严重同意，其实国家党上台的时候大环境不好，最近很多让人民怨声载道的政策也是没有办法。工党执政这么多年赶上经济环境也不错，可是也没干过什么好事。对工党算是彻底失望了，对国家党持观望态度，毕竟上台只有两年的时间而已，而且是在经济萧条的时候，这么短的时间能指望他们做什么呢？可能还会再选国家党，因为那个phil golf实在是太太太dorky了，完全没有leadership，john key至少还有那么点人格魅力。。。

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National Party sucks

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国家党之前涨GST我是可以理解的，经济大环境 不好，国家负债很多，大家一起渡过困难。可是，再穷不能穷教育呀，居然要从小孩子身上扣钱了。。。。如果只是涨10几块，我觉得还是可以负担的，但是我很怕钱也涨了，然后学校还要降低师资力量，把薪水高好的老师挤走换些没经验混事的。

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把国家党踢走把国家党踢走

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说来说去 就是  福利太好
就业率太少  能不工作 也没压力 就不工作
缺乏自觉性
如果政府能加多点 就业机会
家里都能负担的起了  谁在乎 每周多出 几十 给孩子呢。

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之前说是GST上涨，收入税下调，可是下调的都是高收入的。。。我们这些中等收入的也没调下来。。我倒不介意GST涨那么一点点，可收入税真是太狠了。交了这么多的税，到头来却什么福利都享受不到，心里根本平衡不了。。。现在连幼儿园都涨价了，怪不得有了小孩子都不上班了呢。。就业率低这不是逼的我们不就业么？