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Daycare an outdated term [1]

Letter to the editor
Author: 
Dault, Chelsea
Source: 
Toronto Star
Format: 
Article
Publication Date: 
21 Feb 2016
AVAILABILITY
Read online [2]

 

EXCERPTS

I am an early childhood educator, and just like many others, my work is in “child care” not in daycare. It’s 2016 after all, and “daycare” is an outdated term for a place where our youngest citizens are cared for and educated.

Canada has child care problems, not daycare problems – and using this outdated term to report about it doesn’t help our problems get the respect and attention needed to fix them.

-reprinted from Toronto Star

Region: 
Ontario [3]
Tags: 
advocacy [4]

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[1] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/16/02/daycare-outdated-term [2] https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2016/02/22/daycare-an-outdated-term.html [3] https://childcarecanada.org/taxonomy/term/7856 [4] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/advocacy